The Official Scalr blog

Last week we announced Scalr Mission Critical, a service that guaranties that someone will be there to help if your site goes down. It gives you phone support, IM support, and short response times when using support.scalr.net.

This week we are proud to announce Scalr Development, a free version of Scalr open for developing your application while you don’t need the scalability requirements of a Production environment. This edition is limited to subdomains of development.scalr.net, so you can use myapp.development.scalr.net, for example. When you are ready to launch, just use ApacheBench or Tsung to test reaction to massive load, then sign up for Scalr Production and you’ll be good to go.

We are only accepting a limited amount of users this week, so please be patient if you are not accepted immediately.

Cheers,
Sebastian, on behalf of the Scalr Team.

Last week we updated the dashboard to include logs and shortcuts, today we released a new menu bar. If you haven’t done so already, log in, check it out, and let us know if you have any suggestions for improvements.

Stay tuned for much more beginning next week!

We’re pleased to release the first beta of Scalr Remote, a web-based application that uses Scalr’s API to let you check in on your applications and farms – load, size, and health – and show it to friends or colleagues. And if anything needs to be done, you can even use it to manage your infrastructure!

It is available at mobile.scalr.net, and will soon be integrated into scalr.net so when you click on an email alert, you’ll be taken to the proper UI.

To add the Scalr Remote Control to the home screen of your iPhone (see below), click the + icon and ‘Add to Home Screen’. Give it a name and your done!

We are releasing the following updates to the Scalr source code available at Google Code.

* Scalr API (TerminateFarm, LaunchFarm, ListRoles, GetFarmStats, ExecuteScript, ListFarms, ListScripts, ListApplications)
* Support for Elastic Load Balancer
* Rotating EBS snapshots created on MySQL EBS Role
* New scaling algorithms:
- Scaling based on RAM usage
- Scaling based on Date/Time
* UI improvements
* Various bugfixes

These changes will make it easier to integrate Scalr into other applications, including release management software and mobile applications.

Love how Scalr saves you time managing your infrastructure? How easy it is to put your applications on the cloud?

You can now become a fan of Scalr on our shiny new Facebook page and Linkedin group. We’ll keep you up to date on what we are working on to make it ever easier and affordable to provide resources to an application. As for us, it is two more places where we can get to know our users, along with our twitter account and Google group at scalr-discuss.

Cheers,

The Scalr Team