Check the group pages for a nice entry about mounting S3 buckets as a file
system which might makes it all transparent for you.

It was just discussed yesterday again.

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Andrej <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Thanks Arie. That seems like a really good solution for my case... I'll
> need to change parts of the code and assign right ACL to the files on S3.
>
>
> Arie Fishler wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> If I can suggest something...seems like you architecture selection is a bit
> strange. Having such a feature to your specific need seems to complicate
> your normal way of operation. Why don't you make sure that the dynamic
> application stuff is loaded into a central location from which any of your
> app servers can pull?
> This can either be a gluster share or an S3 bucket. Anything that is
> persistent enough and can be used to synchronize any app server that starts.
> By the way..."synchronize" here does not mean each server has to pull
> anything but rather only have immediate access to everything...
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:00 AM, andrej <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Here's a scenario:
>>
>> Most of the time I have one app instance running. The website hosts
>> community.  Members upload new photos every day. Occasionally traffic
>> spikes happen that start another instance. After spike Scalr keeps the
>> new instance and shuts down the old. However the old instance has all
>> updates (photos), and the new only the last image.
>>
>> Because of this I need to save app role every day.
>>
>> Suggestion - can we choose which instance will be kept (not
>> terminated) after a spike? In my case I prefer to see the old instance
>> kept active and terminate newly started instances after activity has
>> fallen.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
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>

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