Great work, thanks.  I'm thinking a larger discussion of deploy and system resources would be a really good thing whether on this card, or maybe move it to a better card for generality at some point.

We have some more constraints with the cldstr deployments now, mysql vs. postgres is one of them, and I'm not sure we actually deploy on passenger now.  I think maybe we do, but enterprise ruby isn't really relevant past ruby 1.8.  Apache can't be taken out of the loop either.  Given those constraints, how much of this could still apply and be useful --Gerry Gleason

I hadn't actually looked at cloudstore before today. That's interesting, a very low-impedence and low-cost way to spin up new application instances on demand. I'm more familiar with heroku, which can also be low-cost but perhaps not as much so as cloudstore. Still, heroku is very big on postgresql, so there's less of a mismatch there.

However! My own situation is different: I have a server in my basement and I can do whatever I like with it. So I'm focused on getting things set up the way that suits me best. If other people can benefit from it, that's awesome! If not, well, no harm no foul.