SynthaSite is hosted on Amazon’s EC2 utility computing infrastructure; which supplies Linux Virtual Machine building blocks you can “rent” by the hour. Using these; its possible to build an on demand scaling system; without the upfront cost & effort involved in setting up your own data center.<\/p>\n
Experiencing heavy load for a few hours? Just fire up another 2 webservers. Load gone? Shut them down again. Total cost – a few dollars.<\/p>\n
Whilst the Amazon infrastructure is excellent, the management tools are all command line based, and can be a bit daunting to the uninitiated.<\/p>\n
Several third party tools have emerged to create a friendlier interface to EC2. Of these, our favourites are the Firefox plugins EC2UI<\/a> & S3Fox<\/a>, and RightScale’s EC2 web interface<\/a>.<\/p>\n RightScale’s interface is a great place to get started. Their logical interface is full of tips & prompts on what to do next; so you can get your first EC2 instance up and running in almost no time.<\/p>\n Far from being just a simple tool to get you going; RightScale grows with you to become your “EC2 server farm” dashboard<\/a>. They provide a number of standard building blocks that every scalable solution is going to need – Replicated MySQL servers, DNS & load-balancing blocks for running multiple webservers, auto-scaling – launching \/ terminating instances based on load triggers.<\/p>\n Further, for those times when the standard building blocks aren’t enough, Michael, Thorsten & team are also available to help with architecture advice & custom solutions<\/a>. In our dealings with them we’ve found them extremely knowledgeable, helpful and professional – a pleasure to work with.<\/p>\n So, if you’re thinking of using EC2 for your next scalable web app; have a look at RightScale and see if you can’t shortcut the process of turning a bunch of VMs into a workable, scalable system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SynthaSite is hosted on Amazon’s EC2 utility computing infrastructure; which supplies Linux Virtual Machine building blocks you can “rent” by the hour. Using these; its possible to build an on demand scaling system; without the upfront cost & effort involved in setting up your own data center. Experiencing heavy load for a few hours? Just… Read MoreScaling on Amazon EC2 with RightScale<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\t\n