I have limited information since I just took over but here is some items: - Site needs to be available (fail safe), we had multiple failures before so the administrator stuck it on a m1.large with a m1.large AZ RDS to keep it safe. - Site has 4 million posts. The Posts table is about 2 gigs in size! db needs to be strong enough to handle searches. - Moving it off of vBulletin to invisionpower which runs with less memory and can use sphinx
Sorry this probably doesn't help much. I could probably answer particulars if questioned. John On Wednesday, October 10, 2012 5:20:36 PM UTC-4, Sebastian Stadil wrote: > > 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] <javascript:> > > 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]<javascript:> >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:>. >> 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/scalr-discuss/-/T4sIa_QiSxcJ. 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.
