My mind is boggled looking through this stuff.. The costs seem too high. It looks like it would cost about $86 a month for a small instance.. and then I need coldfusion. Adobe donated one licence of cf to us, but I would probably have to buy that second license? (I would only be using one or the other server at a time - does the licenses allow for a server to be set up as a backup like this?)
I wound up setting up a godaddy shared account to use as a backup.. It was $129 per year and includes SQL server and cold fusion (I got a 20% discount as a costco member:) I set it up and then I moved my DNS offsite so if something happened here, I just had to use my phone to change the dns to point to the goddady server. Luckily, we never lost electricity or internet.. I didn't evacuate - by the time I was done setting everything up it was too late. The worst seems to be over now, but I will keep godaddy just in case. thanks everyone for your help. Al >If you're to evacuate, do it now. Copy the code and your database to >a USB key or your laptop. > >When you get somewhere that has Internet access, it's a lot simpler >than you'd think. Go to aws.amazon.com, setup an account. Create an >micro or small EC2 instance running Windows - look for an AMI that >runs SQL Server Express. > >It'll take a few minutes to spin up, but once it does, you RDP in - >you set up CF and your database like you would on any other server. > >Billy Cravens >[email protected] > > > >On Aug 27, 2011, at 4:29 PM, Al Musella, DPM wrote: > > > > > Hate to ask - I know I am supposed to google first - but I am > > under a mandatory evacuation - have to leave by 5pm.. (half hour > > ago:).. I did google and couldn't find a succinct way. > > DO you know of a simple guide to setting up a cold fusion website > > under Amazon? Bonus points for including sql server:) > > > > Al > > > > > > At 05:56 AM 8/27/2011, you wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Al Musella, DPM wrote: > >>> Luckily, people will understand down time due to a hurricane.. not > >>> too worried about a few minutes of data loss - I have a way to > >>> recover in case there is a loss... > >> > >> Sounds like you could get away with synchronizing your database > >> transaction logs to somewhere with rsync. That easily keeps your data > >> loss under 10 minutes and if you have a prepared AMI/VPS image > >> somewhere you could be up and running again in 15 minutes. Just make > >> sure your DNS TTL is low enough for that. > >> > >> > >>> when anything in this patient registry is added or updated, > >>> I send an email to my gmail account with the old and new > >>> data (encrypting any person info)... so if worst case happens, I can > >>> manually go back and fix things. > >> > >> But that only works if the email is not spooled on your local system. > >> So you need to both disable the disk mail spool and use a remote SMTP > >> server. > >> > >> Jochem > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Jochem van Dieten > >> http://jochem.vandieten.net/ > >> > >> > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:347063 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
