One of the COs in my company keeps asking "why don't we put it all in the cloud"? I'm running out of good answers.
Situation: We have four locations (US-West, Singapore, Korea, Spain) and two datacenters (US-West, Singapore). We have a database-driven application (Content Management System) that is mission-critical to all locations and all potential customers all over the world. Currently that entire system (MySQL database and Apache web servers) are all located in the US; performance in Asia and Spain is dismal. My boss, having no idea what "the cloud" actually is, wants to move the entire system into "the cloud". After some investigation, we have determine that some aspects of the system can be hosted on Amazon AWS or similar. But we have big doubts about database performance, big doubts. Question: What are your experiences with cloud-based (or cloud-capable) content management systems? What options are there for putting a database-driven application in "the cloud"? -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers-- _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
