Sorry, couldn't resist that subject line.
We're going to be providing a bunch of wordpress CMS hosting for various
state agencies that we work with. In the interests of security and
flexibility, instead of deploying it to our existing server
infrastructure (almost entirely Java/Tomcat based) we're planning on
using Amazon's AWS/EC2 environment, as we can apparently get a good
government discount. If any of the wordpress sites get compromised or
the servers they're on which we figure is more likely than here, there
won't be any connection to our main environment.
Initially I'm thinking of just 2 servers (hopefully in different
availability zones), master<->master mysql replication between them,
Nginx + FastCGI (php-fpm), along with DRBD for replicating the wordpress
directories between boxes. Ultimately if the service takes off I'll be
looking to take the obvious steps of creating dedicated database servers
(or using Amazon's one?) and so on, but it's not worth the extra cost
right now.
There has been a bunch of talk recently around blogs that is confusing
me a little bit, the latest of which seems to be a debate about whether
you should use EBS rather than local instance storage for / or not.
Anyone got any particular observations, hints or tips about what I
should expect on AWS?
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