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Exploring Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

By Elliot ⋅ April 15, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

This week I’ve been reading a great deal about Amazon EC2, a service which lets you rent servers from Amazon’s huge server farms from as little as 10 cents/hour ($73/month).
The principle behind EC2 is genius. You select which ‘AMI’ (linux image) you want to start your server with, then choose what spec you want.
Here’s the [...]

Optimizing and Scaling your CodeIgniter Application - with Benchmarks!

By Elliot ⋅ February 13, 2008 ⋅ 24 comments

Scaling and Optimizing your CodeIgniter Application, with Benchmarks
There’s been a few discussions recently about optimizing CodeIgniter applications to make them faster, more reliable, and scalable.
So, let’s look at some methods of doing this, with ‘real’ numbers and benchmarks.
‘Baseline’ - The Bog Standard
First of all, we need to build a little controller that does ’stuff’.
It’s not [...]

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