Re: scaling my site

As some of the replies have suggested, it depends very much on your application but I can talk about my experience in scaling and web hosting and you might find them helpful Webhosting For one of my projects (http://www.borrow-err.com/), I used Webfaction and it was one of the best decision I

Re: scaling my site

On 07/24/10 09:12, tiemonster wrote: First off, what type of application is it? Many reads, many writes, or both? If you have lots of reads and few writes (like a blog or PR site), you can do heavy caching and you'd be fine with just about any host. If you have lots of writes (like a forum or

Re: scaling my site

"Fast" is extremely relative, and has nothing to do with scalability. A "slow" web site can still scale to millions of users, and a 'fast" web site can go down with only a few thousand hits. First off, what type of application is it? Many reads, many writes, or both? If you have lots of reads and

Re: scaling my site

I can't comment on US based hosting companies but i played with EC2 last weekend. IMO, as Greg pointed out, EC2 is too pricey if it is not sure how much capacity you'll need in the future and how you will scale out. Check http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html for their calculator. If

Re: scaling my site

I'd stay away from Amazon if like you said money is a concern. Amazon web services are extremely overpriced. For the same amount of money you'd be able to get much better performance by renting a dedicated server or even a VPS. Also if you're running databases then IO performance is critical.

Re: scaling my site

so I would just run an apache instance on the host? And on the Amazon utilities, is it that complicated to set up? Could you give me some sort of overview of what that would take? And if I did just do the apache instance, would it be fast enough because it sort of does need to be fast and be

Re: scaling my site

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Tony Lambropoulos wrote: > Well I am new to this, but with a push in the right direction I think i can > set it up and i have a partner who knows a little more. We're looking for > advice on good hosting sites and database servers that mesh

Re: scaling my site

Well I am new to this, but with a push in the right direction I think i can set it up and i have a partner who knows a little more. We're looking for advice on good hosting sites and database servers that mesh well with Django and can expand well. How is slicehost? has anyone heard anything

Re: scaling my site

You will need to find/hire a sysadmin if you can't do this yourself. We looked into Amazon for our purposes and found their interface kludgy and their documentation confusing rather than helpful. Also, I kept a server running idle on Amazon for a month and it was more expensive than slicehost

scaling my site

I have just about finished all the logic for my site. In short, I need the site to be pretty fast and a good amount of database storage with the possibility of getting more in the future if and probably when I need it. Right now I am just testing my website on my computer with Django, (mod_swgi)