May 2nd, 2012
Amazon EC2 – a real-world case study of moving from a data center to the cloud
Two years ago, I blogged about ChessJam, a chess application that I helped develop where people from all over the world play live chess with each other. Since launching ChessJam, it’s been up and running 24/7 with very little downtime and has experienced some good growth. To give you a sense of the activity levels, [...]
Sep 20th, 2011
My Adobe MAX session – Migration to the Cloud – How Do I Get There?
During the past year, I’ve learned a lot about various cloud computing offerings including Amazon EC2 / S3 / CloudFront / Beanstalk / RDS / etc., Rackspace Cloud, Salesforce.com, Cloud Foundry, Heroku, and of course, the growing number of Adobe cloud-related offerings. I’ve also learned that “cloud” is probably the most overused word I’ve come [...]
Feb 7th, 2011
Amazon EC2 Micro Instance and Stolen CPU
Last week, I moved my blog to Amazon EC2 in order to have more control of it (blogged here). I chose a Micro instance running Ubuntu Linux because Micro is the least expensive (2 cents per hour) and from my previous experience hosting various websites and services on Micro instances, I felt it was more [...]
Jan 31st, 2011
How and why I moved my blog to Amazon EC2 from WordPress.com
On October 30th, 2007, I launched my blog, GregsRamblings.com. At the time, I needed something quick and simple so I went with WordPress.com, a very popular WordPress hosting site. You can have a blog up and running in less than five minutes. Although WordPress.com has served me well, I’ve had a few frustrations along the [...]
Oct 5th, 2010
Distributing content world wide using Amazon CloudFront
A few days ago, I announced that many of the samples in Tour de Flex are now hosted in 16 distributed locations. As promised, here are the details: Prior to last Friday, most of the Tour de Flex samples were hosted from a dedicated server in California. For those of us in the US, the [...]
Sep 22nd, 2010
My dive into the world of Amazon EC2 and the new crazy cheap Micro instance
I heard about Amazon EC2 when it launched in 2006 but had never really checked it out until about four weeks ago when I was looking for at my options for hosting some demos that require more control over the machine than what a typical hosting company provides. One of my fellow evangelists, James Ward, [...]
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