Rudi,
We have pretty much all our clients with Amazon EC2. Some are larger load
balanced setups with Amazon's Elastic load balancer and others are purely a
single instance with everything running off of it.
When we first got started using Amazon, we got permission from Adobe and use
CF8. A very short time after that though we moved to Railo due to the
licensing requirements. We have been very happy with Railo in the cloud as
well.
As for severs, we prefer linux and have the majority of our clients on linux
instances. We do have a couple of clients though that insisted on Windows and
they are running well too (apache/railo/tomcat setup).
Our biggest challenge overall has been the Amazon's RDS Database service.
Today we have been having challenges with it as well -- 98% of the time it
never is an issue and all is good, but when it does have problems it is a
severe pain in the butt! We are looking at solutions like xeround.com and
entrust.com to possibly migrate to instead as well for mSQL managed instances.
Amazon's EBS backed instances provide the most flexibility, but they also
provide the most flakiness as well so be aware -- granted we still use them as
do most others. FYI, this "system" that creates the EBS backed instances is
what caused the catastrophic failure with Amazon's eastern region data center.
We have hosted with amazon for about 1.5 years now and have had pretty good
success overall -- outside of Amazon's eastern datacenter crash which took down
several clients. It really all comes down to cost for redundancy -- if you can
at least use an elastic load balancer and span a couple of "zones" (each
datacenter/region has multiple zones) then it should be more redundant.
If you have lots more to spend you can use a service like entrust.com which
allows you to load balance across clouds -- Amazon, rackspace, etc to ensure
truly nothing goes down.
Other big gotcha with the cloud is outgoing email since all cloud IPs are
blacklisted for email. Here are a couple of great ones we use since one of our
SaaS site's sends about 150k emails per month:
www.deliverHQ.com (been great overall)
www.sendgrid.com (good price but service sucks and arrogant customer
service)
www.mailgun.net (testing right now but seem very good)
There are some other ones (smtp.com, authsmtp.com, postmarkapp.com, etc) as
well but they get REALLY expensive per month when you are sending out above 50k
emails/month.
Feel free to ask any questions or contact me off the list as well with any
questions.
Regards,
Jeremy
[email protected]
On May 31, 2011, at 4:08 PM, Rudi Shumpert wrote:
> Anyone done this?
>
> Any suggestions?
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