EduTechnica Enters the Cloud!
// February 14th, 2010 // No Comments » // Blog
Originally, we were using WestHost as our hosting provider for EduTechnica. They were a great host and I would recommend them to anyone (and I have), but recently we learned that they are not supporting the type of Tomcat server we had any more.
Seeing as how we run a Java-based application, we need the Tomcat support. So, our site is now hosted by Rackspace using their Cloud Servers. It’s similar to the type of account we had before with WestHost, but we now have much more flexibility in the server configuration and can quickly scale as necessary.
In addition to now being hosted in the cloud, we migrated our email over to Google’s “Apps for Your Domain” which basically allows us to use GMail, Google Docs, GCal, etc within our domain. I personally love this since the POP3 support on my Droid seems to be spotty at best but it interfaces seamlessly with GMail accounts. So now we have awesome web-based email, integration with my phone, private chat options, and Postini spam filter. I’ll also be moving all of my other domains to Google Apps in the coming weeks.
So now that the hosting has been reestablished, the databases have been migrated, and SocialEngine has been set up again, it’s time to get into the pCharts and tie it all together. Expect closed beta testing to commence soon.