Comments on: Moving My Blog to the Cloud http://jungleg.com/2009/03/09/moving-my-blog-to-the-cloud/ Empowering businesses to leverage the new web economy Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:51:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Mike Johnston http://jungleg.com/2009/03/09/moving-my-blog-to-the-cloud/comment-page-1/#comment-586 Mike Johnston Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:03:11 +0000 http://jungleg.com/?p=518#comment-586 I host a bunch of sites on a semi-dedicated VPS and that is working out quite well. I pondered Amazon as an option, though I've put it aside for now as I don't really need the scalability for the sites in question. But I keep hoping for a non-contrived reason to actually get to USE the service. One of my associates uses it to do cross-platform testing. He runs pure Linux on his machine and doesn't have direct access to Windows - and I can't say I blame him. When I ask him to test browser compatibility, he just fires up an AWS Windows instance, does his testing, and that's that. Where AWS really gets me excited is in high-availability. Just fire up a bunch of machine instances as your web servers, give them a shared database (which could even be a pair running master-master replication), front them with a load-balancing machine instance (Say, Pound), and you've got instant HA architecture. Well, perhaps not instant, but zero CapX infrastructure. I host a bunch of sites on a semi-dedicated VPS and that is working out quite well. I pondered Amazon as an option, though I’ve put it aside for now as I don’t really need the scalability for the sites in question. But I keep hoping for a non-contrived reason to actually get to USE the service.

One of my associates uses it to do cross-platform testing. He runs pure Linux on his machine and doesn’t have direct access to Windows – and I can’t say I blame him. When I ask him to test browser compatibility, he just fires up an AWS Windows instance, does his testing, and that’s that.

Where AWS really gets me excited is in high-availability. Just fire up a bunch of machine instances as your web servers, give them a shared database (which could even be a pair running master-master replication), front them with a load-balancing machine instance (Say, Pound), and you’ve got instant HA architecture. Well, perhaps not instant, but zero CapX infrastructure.

]]> By: Jorge Escobar http://jungleg.com/2009/03/09/moving-my-blog-to-the-cloud/comment-page-1/#comment-585 Jorge Escobar Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:54:05 +0000 http://jungleg.com/?p=518#comment-585 True, Mike. Running a blog *only* might not make a lot of sense, unless you're serving hundreds of thousands of users. Of course, I moved other stuff to this server (including some sites and scripts I test), so it made a lot of sense to me... True, Mike. Running a blog *only* might not make a lot of sense, unless you’re serving hundreds of thousands of users. Of course, I moved other stuff to this server (including some sites and scripts I test), so it made a lot of sense to me…

]]> By: Mike Johnston http://jungleg.com/2009/03/09/moving-my-blog-to-the-cloud/comment-page-1/#comment-584 Mike Johnston Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:09:08 +0000 http://jungleg.com/?p=518#comment-584 I agree about the new management console. When I first looked at AWS last year, I was put off by the lack thereof; I'm delighted to see they fixed this. Running a web application on AWS is, as you say, probably a no-brainer. Of course, running a blog on it might be overkill - but perhaps that's half the fun. I agree about the new management console. When I first looked at AWS last year, I was put off by the lack thereof; I’m delighted to see they fixed this.

Running a web application on AWS is, as you say, probably a no-brainer. Of course, running a blog on it might be overkill – but perhaps that’s half the fun.

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