I haven't had time to blog, but I thought I would post. I just
finished moving our ENTIRE datacenter to the Amazon EC2 Cloud. I have
been toying with the idea for a while. I did earnest research and
testing over the last few months and then bit the bullet starting the
thanksgiving weekend. There were definitely some issue along the way,
and it is very complicated unless you use their own off the shelf AMI
images, which I did not.
I am amazed at the speed of the mysql system and the speed and
performance of the sites. We still have a few old witango sites, so
those are running on 2 witango instances on win2003r2 and then many
sites on PHP, some on Zend Platform, and others just on PHP 5.2 from
the Zend Core.
Other than the fact that I have a warehouse full of unused servers, I
am love with the fact of not having to deal with hardware anymore. I
have saved AMIs for witango and/or php. So if an app is getting
hammered I can launch a new instance and have it in the queue in
minutes. The same goes for scaling down.
So, for the record, witango and PHP work very well in the cloud, along
with mysql. Keep in mind there are many setup tweaks and guidelines to
follow, especially with mysql, but once you get it worked out, its
amazing.
One of the greatest advantages is snapshot backups. I can make a point
in time backup snapshot of our 400 Gigabyte mysql server in about 10
seconds. It can even be done during load times, it will just "pause"
the system for a few seconds. Pretty amazing.
I feel sorry for the guys that ran my datacenter, they have a lot of
empty space now, but I gave them many warnings and heads up previous
to the move.
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Robert Garcia
President - BigHead Technology
VP Application Development - eventpix.com
13653 West Park Dr
Magalia, Ca 95954
ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040
rgar...@bighead.net - rgar...@eventpix.com
http://bighead.net/ - http://eventpix.com/
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