Thanks all. That is all very helpful. I don’t have a particular preference between Google and Amazon here, but was attracted by the automatic encryption by default in Google
I’ll give it a whirl. Mark > On 24 Jul 2017, at 11:08, Paul Hoadley <pa...@logicsquad.net> wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > On 23 Jul 2017, at 10:18 pm, Mark Gowdy <m...@gowdy.co.uk > <mailto:m...@gowdy.co.uk>> wrote: > >> Has anyone considered using the more advanced ELB setup as an alternative to >> apache and the adaptor? >> Similar to how mod_proxy works. >> >> Static stuff could be served from S3, and ELB would load balance across the >> instances? > > Sounds interesting. Are you talking about Application Load Balancers (ALB) > that can do URL-based request routing? We’ve used ALBs for different > purposes, but not what you’re describing. My first thought is that involving > S3 like that would complicate deployment, but nothing you couldn’t script > around somehow. > > For my money, the missing piece in the whole jigsaw remains any kind of > (reliable) session portability. What would be cool is using auto-scaling to > manage a dynamic appserver pool, but in the absence of portability a > scale-down event on a session-based app would kill user sessions, which isn’t > a great user experience. If anyone’s got any ideas for _that_ issue, I’m all > ears. > > > -- > Paul Hoadley > https://logicsquad.net/ <https://logicsquad.net/> > https://www.linkedin.com/company/logic-squad/ > > > > -- Dr. Mark Wardle Consultant Neurologist, University Hospital Wales, Cardiff, UK Email: mark.war...@wales.nhs.uk or m...@wardle.org Twitter: @mwardle Telephone: 02920745274 (secretary) or facsimile: 02920744166
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