[03:54] <terje> flaccid, thanks.
[03:55] <terje> totally used that.
[03:55] <flaccid> np
[03:56] <terje> these guys asked me to make them an AMI
[03:56] <flaccid> why?
[03:56] <terje> I said it would take me like, oh 10 hours
[03:56] <terje> it's been like 30
[03:57] <terje> they're a little start-up company
[03:57] <flaccid> there are dozens already available
[03:57] <terje> I'm only charging them for 12 hrs.
[03:57] <flaccid> including the official ubuntu ones
[03:57] <terje> they needed a custom configuration
[03:57] <terje> php-fpm, nginx a whole shit-ton of php modules.
[03:58] <flaccid> you can use a RightScale ServerTemplate for that
[03:58] <flaccid> or just do user data scripts
[03:58] <terje> for what?
[03:58] <flaccid> configuring the node
[03:58] <terje> eh, I dunno
[03:58] <terje> this was like
[03:58] <flaccid> Chef is a good configuration management system as well
[03:59] <terje> yea, I mean
[03:59] <terje> that's a bunch of work too
[03:59] <terje> they had pretty specific requirements
[03:59] <flaccid> can be much less work as well because there are already scripts for most of what you just said
[03:59] <terje> hmm
[04:00] <terje> I wonder
[04:00] <terje> is there some kind of library I can search?
[04:00] <flaccid> http://www.rightscale.com/library/
[04:00] <flaccid> http://cookbooks.opscode.com/
[04:01] <terje> sweet
[04:02] <terje> do you need to pay for this rightscale service?
[04:02] <flaccid> we provide a free developer edition account
[04:03] <terje> ok, looks like I found the right place to hang out.
[04:04] <flaccid> though you can use chef or puppet without a cloud management platform
[04:04] <flaccid> freedom of choice
[04:04] <terje> I actually wrote one a while back
[04:04] <terje> it was more simple, but I used it to manage like 2200 systems.
[04:04] <flaccid> sweet
[04:05] <terje> they're still using it actually, my former employer
[04:05] <terje> I think it pre-dated chef or
[04:05] <terje> there was another one
[04:05] <terje> capistrano
[04:06] <flaccid> you can get that in a rubygem
[04:08] <terje> where are you located (out of curiosity)?
[04:08] <flaccid> myself, Australia
[04:08] <flaccid> RightScale is in Santa Barbara, California
[04:08] <terje> ah ok
[04:09] <terje> and does RightScale support other public cloud platforms?
[04:09] <flaccid> yes, Rackspace as well as private clouds such as Eucalyptus
[04:11] <terje> cool
[07:05] <areay> hi all -- one of my instances requires me to compile BIND9 from source -- i'm testing now but each time it's (obviously) taking a long time... should i be cross-compiling or making a deb package to speed things up or is compiling on the instance the best way to go? sorry if that's a stupid question it's just that /proc/cpuinfo shows some weird stuff and i'm not really sure what to do:/
[07:16] <flaccid> deb
[07:54] <areay> flaccid, thanks :) you've helped me twice now i'm in your debt
[07:54] <flaccid> any time