[FX.php List] [OFF] Looking for information about load-balancing

[Tony White]

We recently went live on a FileMaker <-> Web using External SQL Data Sources
(ESS) project
http://www.twdesigns.com/development/past_projects/filemaker_web_using_exter
nal_sql_data_sources_ess.php

Here are my thoughts on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform

They give you lots of different infrastructure pieces (filtered for your
project) that you can put together (from the docs):
* Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
* Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
* Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
* Amazon CloudFront
* Amazon Route 53

Here from the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide
* Amazon Machine Images and Instances
* Regions and Availability Zones
* Amazon EBS Volumes
* Networking and Security
* Monitoring, Auto Scaling, and Load Balancing (page 9)
* etc.

I would up reading about 1,000 pages of Amazon user guide and white pages.
There was a lot of stuff that was new to me.

I just sent you 2 of the intro PDFs back channel.
Here are the Amazon EC2 Getting Started Guide and the Amazon EC2 User Guide
http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/ec2/

Amazon Web Services provides the bare bones infrastructure.
The paid support answered 2 of 3 questions and refused to answer the 3rd
question saying that they only support the bare bones infrastructure.

The support (paid and free) in general was slower to respond than
advertised.

Hope that helps.

Good luck.

All the best,


Tony White
Tony White Designs, Inc.
Tel: 718-797-4175
tony_white at twdesigns.com
http://www.twdesigns.com


On 6/14/12 2:53 PM, "Bob Patin" <bob at patin.com> wrote:

> I have a large client to whom I lease servers; they've expressed concern about
> what might happen if a catastrophic outage were to occur at my hosting company
> here--if, for example, the phone lines citywide went down, taking out all
> Internet connections for the city or the region.
> 
> I mentioned a load-balancing system to them, but don't have much knowledge
> about how they work, the cost involved, etc. My suggestion to them was for us
> to possibly have a redundant system in a 2nd location somewhere in the US, and
> use a load-balancing system to roll their site to the second host if any
> failure should occur.
> 
> If anyone has information about this, I would appreciate hearing about it;
> there may be others interested on this forum, so replying in the forum might
> be useful.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bob Patin
> Longterm Solutions LLC
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