From daoswald at gmail.com Sat Jun 2 18:37:28 2012 From: daoswald at gmail.com (David Oswald) Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 18:37:28 -0700 Subject: [Thousand-Oaks-pm] Amazon EC2 presentation: A followup question. Message-ID: I was just wondering if anyone in our group who has deployed on EC2 has used it to support a database as well. It's my understanding that the EC2 instance loses its data when shut down, so it doesn't make sense to host a database within it, but Amazon provides the RDS cloud, which should be a nice stable cloud-based relational database, available to an EC2 application. Another option I'm considering for this project is dot cloud. It sort of bundles a web application instance along with a mysql database. I guess my question is, what experiences have others had in pairing EC2 with RDS for a low-volume but highly available web application? And can anyone compare that to experiences with dot cloud's "Perl/MySQL" web application environment? I've got a client whom I would like to migrate away from self-hosting an internal-use web application, by moving them over to the cloud, possibly retaining one of the existing servers just in case of thunder storms. ;). Dave -- David Oswald daoswald at gmail.com From faison09 at gmail.com Sun Jun 3 14:02:52 2012 From: faison09 at gmail.com (shawn faison) Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 14:02:52 -0700 Subject: [Thousand-Oaks-pm] Amazon EC2 presentation: A followup question. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Dave, I don't have any experience wtih dot cloud but I've had great experience with using EC2 and mounting EBS ( Elastic Block Store ) images for my data storage. I use Amazon's S3 for static images and Elasticache for my caching layer, this whole setup works really well for me right now and at my current data and network usage it is very cost effective. I don't have any experience with the new CloudFront service or Amazon's custom nosql database solution. I use Redis on an amazon instance and it works great. I have never experienced losing data when rebooting a server but I do know that amazon backs up data on EBS Images and it's easy to clone them and keep backups, but if you have a lot of data it gets expensive. I hope this helped . Shawn On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 6:37 PM, David Oswald wrote: > I was just wondering if anyone in our group who has deployed on EC2 > has used it to support a database as well. It's my understanding that > the EC2 instance loses its data when shut down, so it doesn't make > sense to host a database within it, but Amazon provides the RDS cloud, > which should be a nice stable cloud-based relational database, > available to an EC2 application. > > Another option I'm considering for this project is dot cloud. 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URL: From chardin at valueclick.com Mon Jun 11 17:51:05 2012 From: chardin at valueclick.com (Chuck Hardin) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:51:05 -0700 Subject: [Thousand-Oaks-pm] Thousand Oaks Perl Mongers on Wednesday, June 13! In-Reply-To: <4FCE42D9.9060500@valueclick.com> References: <4FCE42D9.9060500@valueclick.com> Message-ID: <4FD69279.8080008@valueclick.com> To my utter amazement, there wasn't a rush to volunteer for a second presentation! In fact, we'd still like one. If you have something burning a hole in your back pocket, now's the time to step up! On 06/05/2012 10:33 AM, Chuck Hardin wrote: > In a week and a day from this writing, TO Perl Mongers is meeting at 7 > PM. As usual, see http://thousand-oaks.pm.org/ for the most > up-to-date information. > > We have one presenter already, TO-PM stalwart Barry Brevik, who will > present an email tracking test utility. This leaves only one > presenter slot open, so the line forms on the left! Let me know if > you want to present, and sooner would be better than later -- these > slots are going fast lately. > > Whether you're presenting or observing, I look forward to seeing you > there! > -- > Chuck Hardin Software Engineer, ValueClick Media > +1-818-575-4573 chardin at valueclick.com > > This email and any files included with it may contain privileged, > proprietary and/or confidential information that is for the sole use > of the intended recipient(s). Any disclosure, copying, distribution, > posting, or use of the information contained in or attached to this > email is prohibited unless permitted by the sender. 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