Tag Archives: AWS

Purchasing an RDS reserved instance in eu-west-1

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Andrew

After Amazon’s announcement that they’d released reserved instances for Amazon RDS, I decided to purchase a small instance to save the $300-odd per year by buying a one-year reservation.

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Implications of the Amazon CloudFront default root object

Posted on August 7, 2010 by Andrew

Amazon recently announced that their CloudFront service now supports serving of an arbitrary object at the root URL of a CloudFront domain. This means that Amazon S3 users can now host entire static sites using only S3 and CloudFront.

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Uploading directly to Amazon S3 from a Rails application

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Andrew

The use cases for Superhug are heavy on uploading and downloading large(ish) files. Rails itself isn’t so well suited to this sort of task, and it’s best to keep state away from application servers wherever possible. We chose to use Amazon S3 … Continue reading →

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Sell your WordPress, Magento, Joomla themes on Superhug

Posted on June 20, 2010 by Andrew

Camel Punch‘s latest client project, Superhug, went into live beta recently. It’s a Rails-driven marketplace for Drupal, Expression Engine, Joomla, Magento, Tumblr and WordPress designs, as well as HTML and PSD templates.

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