Can you build your own private Heroku platform?
is it even possible to roll out your own private heroku-like hosting platform? with all these AWS problems, people that rely on Heroku have little choice but to run their own Rails server if they dont want to use Heroku. I've started looking at Cloud Foundry (http://www.cloudfoundry.com/) which is an open source PaaS solution. I found two ways you can get it up and running on a private server, either by using the Ubuntu package (http://conrey.org/2011/10/20/cloudfoundry-zero-to-server-in-...) or by using the install script from the GitHub repo and getting the latest version (https://github.com/cloudfoundry/vcap). I haven't actually gotten a chance to play with it yet so I can't tell you how it is, but looks promising :) Not that I'm aware of. There are EC2-alikes, methinks that's what Eucalyptus is about. I might start looking there, to build upon their open source. Let me know what you find, I'm interested in this space.