Loving the Clouds

The grayness of the day has kept me indoors, researching cloud computing providers for my side projects. Operations engineering has never been one of my strong suits, or one of my weak suits, or for that matter anything that I would want to put on my body ever, so deploying web applications on the cloud is a clear plus for me.

After judging the lay of the land, I settled on Aptana Cloud (the one with the Joyent Accelerator under the hood) as my provider. I found Amazon's EC2 unappealing as I would have to configure my image from scratch, and Google's AppEngine would force me to build my applications on top of an incredibly proprietary stack.

Aptana's solution is both easier to configure than the Amazon solution and based on an open source stack, unlike Google's solution. All I have to do is push the application from the Eclipse based IDE that I already develop in for personal projects and everything "just" works.

I even get source control and staging sites. Between this and Basecamp I don't think there's anything that can stop a web entrepreneur with a great idea .