Amazon EC2
December 3rd, 2008
Leroy is a Zend PHP Certified Engineer from Crestview FL. He has been computing for over two decades, drag-racing for 13 years and spent a year with a band as a guitarist
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Well, the more i have played around with setting up instances in “the cloud” the more I have liked it. Simple enough and completely scalable as necessary. The next step is to have load-balancing going on and robust database servers backing it all up. For almost every application we build, databases are a vital part of the solution – but if we just needed to serve up media or throw cpu cycles at generating/processing video – its definitely the way to go. You can run pretty much any platform you like and only when you need it. Its brilliant and I am still discovering all the ways we can use this and offer it to our smaller clients. We considered using it for our SVN repositories, but anything like that (with versioning and dynamic data) is probably not a great candidate. Although it allows us to get our setup right and build out some cool implementations that are robust and powerful and take them back offline while we work out the kinks. Nice.
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:27 am
And just for my own personal sanity (and access outside my usual dev box)
I have been playing with using the Ubuntu AMI’s on http://alestic.com/ (Hardy)
And the following tools get installed pretty much right away:
sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php5 php-pear php5-gd php5-mysql php5-imagick phpmyadmin