• Grid Accelerators for Web Applications: This whitepaper will show that deploying and growing Web applications with Joyents Grid Accelerators is more cost efficient, predictable and linear with demand than other options.

The following are Joyents Grid Accelerator Use Cases where we share the complete details of real user setups along with the cost scenarios. They include clients that have needed larger scale hosting clusters, java application deployments, MySQL cluster backends, and process driven applications written in Ruby on Rails, Python (using the Django framework) and Erlang.

• Hosting Cluster: A company that offers weblog and file hosting to professional photographers wanted to build a resilient hosting cluster for their customers. They essentially wanted an equivalent of Media Temples Grid Server. All of the sites are PHP-driven and customers have SFTP access to an area to add static files. Read the story.
• MySQL Cluster: A container customer with a java-based application has a large collection of time-sensitive data that must be queried very quickly.
• Rails Application: A Ruby on Rails development team has developed an interactive site for a major television station that contains some social networking features and users are able to upload and share images. The application is launching in four weeks, and the development team isnt entirely sure what the response will be to the site but they are expecting a good deal of visitors. It will be appearing on a major television talk show so the management is requiring that they have the ability to quickly and temporarily scale.