title: Grails Deployment - Fastest way to get deployed?
body: <p>If anyone has or is running a Grails application on their server I would appreciate some details on where to go after creating the WAR.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Background</strong></p>
  
  <p>I chose <a href="http://www.grails.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">grails</a> because with <a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Google App Engine</a> and the <a href="http://www.grails.org/plugin/app-engine" rel="nofollow noreferrer">App Engine Plugin</a> deployment should have been trivial. This issue is that there is a <a href="http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRAILSPLUGINS-1736" rel="nofollow noreferrer">bug</a> which makes any application pretty much unusable, I wish this had been more prominent so I didn't have to get to the point of seeing the error myself before I was aware of it.</p>
  
  <p>The next option was <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">EC2</a> and the Cloud Tools plugin, it seems Cloud Tools worked with grails 1.0 but doesn't work with the current 1.2.1 due to issues getting the JAR dependencies. It also seems that <a href="http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/news-solutions-applications/open-source-cloud-tools-project-spawns-cloud-foundry-103" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Cloud Tools has been succeeded</a> by <a href="http://www.cloudfoundry.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Cloud Foundry</a> which is in beta, will cost extra money and has limited places (I signed up but haven't got an e-mail).</p>
  
  <p><strong>Question</strong></p>
  
  <p>My application is painfully trivial, it has a small load, small data requirements and doesn't need to scale past 5 users.</p>
  
  <p>How can I <a href="http://grails.org/Deployment" rel="nofollow noreferrer">deploy</a> my grails app as quickly and painlessly as possible?</p>
  
  <p>Specifically:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Are there any hosting companies that have tomcat installed on their servers out of the box that I can sign up to and use that will just work?</li>
  <li>Do you know of any simple tutorials for getting a grails application deployed to EC2 without Cloud Tools?</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance,</p>
  
  <p>Gav</p>
  
  <p><em>Side-note</em>: I picked grails because of <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2433497/making-a-simple-searchable-directory-of-people-and-their-skills-in-a-day-which/2433536#2433536">good advice from SO</a>, it should have been a very short time from development to deployed product except the tools for auto-deployment aren't that mature and I've never configured a server before.</p>