Thank you Clifford for the heads up and your advice!
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 1:32 AM, CLIFFORD ILKAY <[email protected]>wrote: > On 03/01/2014 11:21 AM, Robin Lery wrote: > > Very nicely explained! I was actually hoping to use Amazon RDS with > > postgresql. Your help was very useful. Thank you! > > There is another issue if your application has to deal with user > uploaded files, such as photos, PDFs, etc. You must consider the > instances in an autoscaling cluster to be volatile because they can come > and go automatically. Consequently, you must have a way of ensuring that > either the filesystems of those instances are synchronized or store user > contributed files on Amazon S3. Fortunately, we have pluggable storage > in Django so it's easy to do the latter. > > If you ever have to deploy an application that doesn't have that, as we > did, we ended up creating an NFS cluster in a VPC (Virtual Private > Cloud) and the instances in the autoscaling group mounted the exported > NFS filesystem. The autoscale instances had two network interfaces, one > for the public Internet and another for the internal network in the VPC, > so the NFS cluster was not exposed to the Internet. > > -- > Regards, > > Clifford Ilkay > > 647-778-8696 > > Dinamis > > <http://dinamis.com> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/53123CF0.9030005%40dinamis.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CA%2B4-nGpSS5oj5SrL-%3DV21ODWvOi3v%3DTJoHQJTgOdPn-n29M%3D-w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
