the short answer is: worked with most of them, they do what they say, if you have never worked with EC2 based systems you may find some of the concepts new and i highly recommend playing with a simple setup before you build a production system on an architecture you don't have experience with.
the long answer is that if the site "may well need to be hosted in some form of elastic/scalable hosting environment" and you have never done it, be open with your client about it. a highly scalable website is not something that is done on a standard stack with run of the mill components. If you have never used a CDN or several (randomly appearing and disappearing) instances that together form a working site, then welcome to a whole new world. the misconception that any of the above platforms just magically scale any code can leave you (and your customer) stranded pretty high on a rocky beach with many bruises for all of you. happy to help you with more details but this looks a bit like a bubble bursting exercise to me. if you are worried about scale, start with something that integrates in a simple way into your existing stack like cloudflare and then grow it from there. cheers lenz On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Boyd <[email protected]> wrote: > you may find the AWS conference in Auckland on the 30th helpful if you > didn't already know about it. > > > On May 13, 3:31 pm, John Lennard <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am currently in the process of working on some hosting options for a > > project and the current scope requires that the site may well need to be > > hosted in some form of elastic/scalable hosting environment as opposed to > > our own, NZ located servers. > > > > I am curious as to what platforms people have used, such as AWS, Engine > > Yard, Heroku, Rackspace etc. and also if you have been using a > > CDN independent of the hosting platform. > > > > It is also important to know what problems you may have had with any of > > these solutions. > > > > Cheers > > John > > -- > -- > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NZ PHP Users Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NZ PHP Users Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
