Posted by bsnodgrass on

The possibilities of using Amazon EC2 and S3 to host or augment the performance and scalability of a Drupal install was discussed briefly last night at the Chicago Drupal Meetup (http://drupal.meetup.com/1/ ).  I started to look into it today as I am evaluating moving to a new hosting situation.

Has anyone had any experience with this?

Thanks in advance

Bob Snodgrass

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themegarden.org commented

Lack of static IP could be a problem.
All other params sounds great. (and cheap too).

Alse found unofficial blog about some thoughts and experiences with Amazon EC2 at http://elastic8.com/ (site is built on drupal)

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bsnodgrass commented

That seems to be a good link and they indicated on the about page they are hosting at EC2. I sent a message looking for more particulars on their configuration and will update as I learn more.

Any more input would be greatly appreciated!

Bob Snodgrass
net2Community, Inc

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rernst commented

I've investigated, but there are a few problems: mainly the lack of persistant storage for the filesystem and the lack of a cost-effective, stable interface to S3 (s3/fuse is still in alpha).

Perhaps a hybrid solution using EC2 could be an interim measure, at least until AWS finishes the persistant storage engine for EC2 that they've been claiming to work on.