You'll probably want several smaller ones for the higher availability you'll get. Do you know what your gating items are?
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 2:06 PM, John H. <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > I am looking for a setup recommendation using the AWS platform. > Currently we have a vBulletin site that get 1 million visits a month, > about 1500-2000 active visitors at peak times durring the day (12 hour > block), and traffic is increasing every month. > > Our current setup is a large m.1 server for this site and a large m.1 RDS > (multi-AZ) for the DB. > > I would like to setup something that is scaleable and balanced but I don't > want to use a bunch of large servers if multiple smaller ones will make the > site just as fast. > > I was considering the following: > > - Put the forums on nginx instead of apache > - using sphinx for search (how does that affect things) > - using S3 for profile pictures and such (how does that affect things) > - move database off RDS to master and slave setup to save costs > - possibly not use amazon load balancers if better to not... > > Can someone help suggest a setup. What size servers should I do and how > many? What do you think about taking the DB off of RDS? etc... > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "scalr-discuss" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/scalr-discuss/-/H3g6ZPvxFJIJ. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/scalr-discuss?hl=en. > -- Follow us: Twitter <https://twitter.com/#!/scalr> - Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/Scalr> - Blog <http://blog.scalr.net/> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "scalr-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/scalr-discuss?hl=en.
