Posted 17 years ago #
I saw a few random posts on the forum with regards to Amazon's EC2 and S3 service, but nothing recent.
Anyone have any experience with the cloud computing concept? I am looking at going the VPS route, but was sidetrack after reading a few blogs..
What are your thoughts?
Brian
My thoughts are unless you're going to be serving lots of files, it's a big "meh" for me.
Seems to be cheap though.
And you still need webhosting.
Posted 17 years ago #
If you get EC2 set up correctly then it can be a huge benefit for scalability. By "set up correctly" I mean integration with your DNS servers (which shouldn't be on EC2) and a load balancer in place that will handle any extra webserver (instances) you bring online to handle extra load.
It is a bit of an overkill for a small site though. So you may be better off using another VPS host that allows you to control the operating system to get some practice in and then think about moving over to (or including) Amazon at a later date.
Posted 17 years ago #
Yeah. I have my database backups and user uploads going to Amazon S3 as well, though at the moment I'm not serving the files from S3 directly (In fact I'm the 5th comment on that second post :) ).
I wish Elad had published some numbers about his own site to compare how much got offloaded. That 2.4 million requests in a month that he offloaded with just the theme files is a solid number but it's hard to compare when we don't know what kind of traffic and/or loads he's doing.
Granted, 2.4 million requests is still 2.4 million requests. Especially for under the cost of a cup of coffee.
I would think the question would be if you were just started out is if you want to deal with the trouble of going that route.
Someone passed this link to me although it;s for regular wordpress. The page is currently down. Not sure if the plugin will work on wpmu.
