scaling

Hello,

How does scaling work at Amazon if I start out with the smallest instance with a Mercury.

I have never used any of them, just doing my research on which way to go.

Would be as simple as clicking a few buttons on my Amazon control panel to get a bigger instance? :)

A note from the developer who oversees one of my Drupal sites. We could use your help.

Hello,

I have a rather burly Drupal based site that seems to be causing some
problems, today we had a major outage. There are many slow queries
and also mysql related iowait that causes server processes to hang, at
least that is the theory.

Here you can examine some of the stats on the server:
http://andric.us/load/localdomain/localhost.localdomain.html

You can see my iowait stats here, which are pretty high:
http://andric.us/load/localdomain/localhost.localdomain-cpu.html

we're mostly friendly. and mostly fun. but we're pretty geeky. in a cool way, of course. but this month we're a bit melancholy on the news Crystal is leaving us for Seattle. :-/

the good news is that we taped our meeting. ya, real geeky. but LA area is HUGE. and sometimes making it to the meeting in person can be difficult. so there you go... we're geeky but thinking about everyone that wanted to join us, but couldn't.

The March meeting is a combined meeting with the Vancouver PHP User Group:

Scaling Drupal : Notes from the field