Posted by Anonymous on April 10, 2010 at 9:37pm
Start:
2010-05-14 19:00 - 21:00 Pacific/Auckland Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
Amazon Cloud - what is it? Should we use it? (dollar_dad do you want to lead this please?)
Perhaps this could lead into a discussion about the various hosting options for our sites.
From Wikipedia:
* Full-featured hosting services
o Virtual private server
o Dedicated hosting
o Colocation centre
* Web hosting
o Free hosting
o Shared hosting
o Clustered hosting
o Reseller hosting
o FFmpeg hosting
o Application-specific
+ Blog hosting
+ Guild hosting
+ Image hosting
+ Video hosting
+ Wiki farms
+ Application hosting
+ Social network hosting
* File hosting
* Remote backup service
* Game server hosting
* DNS hosting
* E-mail hosting
Comments
Living in the clouds
First of all I would recommend Rackclouds over Amazon Clouds because of price.
The CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a resell of LimeLight.
Rackclouds' instances start smaller and can be expanded up or down as required.
If we go for cloud servers then that removes the question "type of hosting" as we would be controlling and building the type of server we want.
Cloud servers come with DNS and static IP
Using the CDN you can create a very cheap remote back-up service (I've already built a class that extends rackfiles API)
Cloudservers come with backup (the whole instance is backed up)
Email server can easily be built on cloudservers.
I've no idea about gaming servers!
Never take life too seriously, nobody gets out alive anyway!
Aha
WOOOOOSH!
That just went over my head.
Great reason to have it explained :)
Living in the clouds
Cloud Server is virtual machine that is dynamically scalable by virtualization.
read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing for a more indepth description.
Basically you are moving away from purchasing or maintaining hardware.
Imagine having your operating system, databases, users, images, webpages etc all stored on a cd. When someone makes a request from your domain name for say a webpage, your cd is loaded into one of the cloud servers and returns the webpage that was requested. That's not quite what happens but is gives you an idea.
Never take life too seriously, nobody gets out alive anyway!
Rackspace Cloud Servers are great
I use Cloud Servers from Rackspace, just be aware that Cloud servers are generally unmanaged so you will need to be able to manage a server by yourself.
Rackspace Cloud Servers
That's the great thing about Cloud Servers. Just start from a minimum install from one of the many choices and build the server to your personal pref. It also backs up the whole instance so no worries about back-ups.
Never take life too seriously, nobody gets out alive anyway!