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Elliot Haughin

Fully Rolling on EC2

11th February 2009

Hey guys, just thought that I’d mention to everyone that my sites are all now hosted on Amazon’s EC2.

Whilst I’ve been using EC2 and other Amazon services such as S3 and SQS, I’ve always been a little hesitant of moving my current setup across.
The main reason for this is was the lack of an official web-based management tool for EC2. However, Amazon have brought out the rather excellent ‘Management Console’.

ec2_aws_management_console

This new console lets you deploy, monitor, and terminate instances really really easily!

So, that was my decision made, and I’m glad now that I’m across. My sites feel more responsive, and I’ve got room to scale with a few things too.

Filepanda should also start behaving more. I’ve fixed some simple little issues that was having.

Have any of you guys considered moving from traditional dedicated servers to EC2? Have you already done it? If so, let me know all about it!

Edit: Please note, the Blaze – CodeIgniter CMS site has not been migrated yet. This will happen within the next few days.

Related posts:

  1. Hosting Websites – Shared or Dedicated?
  2. Exploring Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
  3. A Quick Overview of Amazon EC2

  • @Chris: It's really pretty easy to get setup in a LAMP environment with, say, a Fedora Core instance on EC2. Quite simply:

    yum install mysql-server
    yum install php
    yum install httpd

    Of course, you'd need to configure your setup how you saw fit.
  • Loving the new design, an hope that you have a great time in the RAF.

    I've always been a bit... err about EC2. I can see why it is an excellent service but I'd much rather pay a modest sum for a dedicated box then have to pay for every request, every cycle, every megabyte of bandwidth. It would seem to be that it would cost more to host on EC2 then it would with MediaTemple, for example.

    Mosso are going in the right direction - a $100 per month flat rate (which gives you xGB of storage, xGB of bandwidth and x number of computer cyles) - which seems more logical, and then anything that you exceed gets put onto your monthly bill.

    Still, it's early days for cloud computing. Who's to say that within a few years every web host migrates onto the cloud and the web just exists as a giant data server. I can see it happening.
  • Hey was just wondering where I could find more info on EC2, I am a programmer for a marketing firm and lately I have had some trouble with the various hosts and I am shopping around. May be if you have a few minutes give me a short rundown of it. I went through the site but the calculator is a bit confusing.

    I appreciate any help you can provide thanks again.
  • I've considered it in the past, but EC2 intimidates me. When it comes to web hosting if I don't have Plesk I wouldn't know what to do with myself. Did it come with things like PHP and MySQL already setup or did you have to do that yourself?

    Also, I might be thinking of S3, but hasn't Amazon web services suffered some high profile downtime in the past? Any concerns there?
  • About Blaze, you are not giving any news about it, what are you planing for this project that was awesome but died fast?
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