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Ask HN: Ideas to ease the installation of an EC2 hosted webapp

1 pointsby nkrodealmost 13 years ago
Recently i open sourced a DIY dropbox powered blogging engine ( http://www.nkrode.com/article/autopilot ). Many of the users interested are people who do not have a programming background, but would still like the idea of a dropbox powered blog. However, i think my current setup instructions are beyond most people. It requires them to :<p>1. Setup a dedicated server or fire an EC2 instance 2. Fork a github repository 3. Install some python packages etc. (i guess i can do a pip install) 4. Configure web servers 5. Configure the blog etc. etc.<p>I was wondering how can I can packages this all together so that it's a sort of 1-click install. One option I was thinking was :<p>1. User signs up for an Amazon account or azure or google. (non geeks will still find it hard to deal with downtimes, server issues etc.) 2. Fires a pre-configured image. 3. Done.<p>Are there any other tools, services, options which can easy this whole process?

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skramalmost 13 years ago
Yes -- look into Amazon CloudFormation (<a href="http://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/" rel="nofollow">http://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/</a>) and/or Amazon's Marketplace (<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/" rel="nofollow">https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/</a>).<p>You might also look into Heroku (<a href="https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/python/" rel="nofollow">https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/python/</a>) and/or services like it specifically for Python (<a href="http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Heroku-equivalent-for-Django-applications" rel="nofollow">http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Heroku-equivalent-for-Djang...</a>)
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