This a bit OT. I just wanted to share what I'd found, in case anyone else is considering moving to the cloud. Its certainly attractive, and being able to spin up a new server from an image configured with webserver, CF, OS and your website files in under 5 minutes is pretty cool.
Just keep one thing in mind. Sending email from the cloud (at least from Amazons) is problematic at best. The IP's (Elastic IP's), that we were assigned we're already in the SpamHaus database and other RBLs. And we NSI wouldn't let us set up a cname record with those IPs. There *are* procedures to get your IP's removed/whitelisted but I don't think you can count on this since there are so many blacklists and your sharing an IP range, so your neighbour could get you in trouble again in the future. For me, I can't risk emails not getting delivered (new user account registrations, password reminders, notifications, campaigns - all of em), so the solution is to maintain an SMTP server at a co-lo or dedicated server location that you can trust to do your mail sending. Or use an outsourced email (smtpauth.com,jangosmtp.com) service. You can also set up a VPC with your existing hardware from the cloud and 'talk' to it like it was on your local network. Anyhow, I just wanted to put this out there. I was stoked to move to the cloud, and this threw a bit of a wrench in the idea, since having to maintain a server somewhere for sending email is kinda of a pain in the butt. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339349 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm