I have limited scaling experience and I'm expending too much energy keeping my servers up. Fortunately now I can afford to pay more. Here's what I want: - tools to easily manage multiple servers - tools to easily cluster my apps - tools / people to automatically configure apache, mysql, etc. - good built-in monitoring - ability to ask somebody about common Rails performance issues and so on
I guess the default answer is Engine Yard, but while I'm willing to pay a good bit for access to expertise, I don't want to pay hundreds of dollars for each extra gig of RAM.
That leaves Rails Machine, who seems like a good fit. Who else is out there in that vein?
