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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? :)

My name is Greg Coit, sysadmin for Chapter 3 and I've been helping with Mercury development and testing.

We wanted a get a quick idea of how hard we could push mercury under more "real world" circumstances, so I combined siege and ab to generate a broad spectrum of hits. ab (short for apache benchmark and part of the apache2-utils package) allows you to generate a very large number of hits on one url, while siege (a perl script which comes in a self-titled debian/ubuntu package) lets you spread the hits across many urls, most of which won't be cached. This mixed-load is a much more nuanced and accurate way of looking at performance than peak throughput on a single url.

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The software could affect many SSL-secured Web sites, including Amazon, Facebook, Gmail, addons.mozilla.org, most Drupal sites, and many online merchants and banks.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle...

Hi Guys,

I was expecting a Drupal module for S3 to already be in existence by now, as there isn't I have a proposal for a module I'm considering developing. Any feedback or suggestions on the implementation/features are greatly welcome.

This is not intended to be a full FileAPI-like module, but more a helper for general node related usage.

• Support for node attachments (Core upload.module), CCK filefield uploads etc that are attached to a node.
• Upon publishing of a node, any associated files are streamed over to Amazon S3 bucket(s).