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csaffi
Joined: 18 May 2009
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 Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 4:48 pm Post subject: SaaS |
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Hello everybody,
I'm planning to develop a multi-tenant SaaS and I would like your opinion on the platform that could host it.
The application should have a growing number of users over time, so it is essential to be scalable. I'd like to develop web applications using JDeveloper or Netbeans and to deploy them on cloud...
On my analysis possible platforms are:
1) cluster of dedicated servers or virtual machines (OVH, Aruba, ...)
2) Cloud (Amazon WAS, Windows Azure, ...)
3) PaaS (VMforce, GAE, ...)
- On case (1) and (2), it's necessary to configure and maintain cluster servers. To create the cluster, regarding the DBMS I thought to use the replication mechanisms of MySQL, while for load balancing Tomcat mechanisms.
The difference between (1) and (2), based on cloud provider I've seen, seems to be that in the cloud is fastest to create/delete new virtual machines instances of the cluster, but the cloud costs much more than traditional virtual machines with the same resources.
- In case (3) PaaS providers offer automatic scalability, but the application should be developed through ad hoc tools and frameworks.
Would you have any advice?
Thank you very much in advance!
Ps. I'm open to possible collaborations |
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gusto2
Joined: 22 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 11:21 am Post subject: SaaS |
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Hello csafii,
this seems to be an old topic, but I think it deserves an opinion. I'm as well curious how did you solved your dilema.
| Quote: | | 1) cluster of dedicated servers or virtual machines (OVH, Aruba, ...) |
For quick startup I used VPS (eroute.net) for a VPS as I was accustomed to use my own linux setup and run any code I write. But for starting a business I found it not very effective (fixed cost, low traffic, few customers).
| Quote: | | 2) Cloud (Amazon WAS, Windows Azure, ...) |
For the virtual machines (e.g. EC2) the prices are now comparable to another VPS providers, but I found the IaaS providers to provide some additional valuable services (e.g. Amazon S3, SimpleDB, ..) which mitigate need to use a database cluster. But if a RDB cluster is needed, I found them equaly costly in any case. (I am not very familiar with the Azure yet)
| Quote: | | 3) PaaS (VMforce, GAE, ...) |
And this is an approach I use to apply for startup.. Put the business logic into PaaS (I use GAE mostly) and content files into an external storage (S3). you are right, it is hard to avoid vendor lock-in (mostly for relational data, of course they want you to stay and to make database resources shared for efficiency), but if you can correctly use any available framework, it's quick, simple and cheeper to start.
Still you have to be aware of limitations set by the PaaS provider. And I found it rather difficult to migrate, mainly for the relational data, becouse the database is not mine anymore..
take care
Gabriel |
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Siregar
Joined: 13 Apr 2011
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Location: indo
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| Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 9:16 am Post subject: |
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I also want to ask how I can SaaS aplication using JAVA EE. I mean, web service will create using in EJB. Then I will orchestrate this service in BPEL, and deploy it using CASA. Is this step right?
My Case study is about SaaS application for Mini Hospital.
Beside that, i'm very confuse how to build right SaaS flow using BPEL. How when the logic is an short business logic like CRUD. Is it need BPEL.
Where I can get example of SaaS that build using Java.
I'm sory for my bad english., |
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