Updated: March 30, 2014
During the application development cycle you will need some combination of development, staging, testing, production, and monitoring servers. Managing a group of servers gets old pretty quick when you have more than one or two. A sane way of managing multiple servers is through Chef Solo. As you’ll see, the Chef-gm project comes with a pre-configured example that you can run on a virtual machine or a remote VPS provider.
VPS Providers
There are a many VPS solutions out there. I recommend the following and will try to provide tutorials for each:
- AWS EC2
- Digital Ocean
- Linode
- Rackspace