[Rack] so... what is pony for?

[Dr. Jesus]

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Patrick Keys <citizenkeys at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was thinking of just setting up some web-based projects to play around
> with and also a sort of "Noisebridge labs" of web-based things that
> Noisebridge might could use, like the diaspora node, phpbb, etc.
>
> I'm considering just getting a computer myself, setting it up with the
> LAMP stack, putting it in the server room, and leaving it at that. Then
> everybody could use it for web-based projects. But I see the issue with
> people worrying about breaking somebody else's project.  Something I
> haven't really setup before is a virtual machine server like Xen (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen ).  I'm going to research that some more.

You probably want the free Amazon EC2 tier:

The closest thing to "Noisebridge labs" is Noisecloud.  If EC2 isn't
doing it for you then let me know and I'll show you how to use the
self-service cloud controller to spin up machines.