So I’ve been looking at Amazon’s AWS tools, specifically EC2, and they look really neat. It’s tempting to move some of my home based sites (specifically the ones I host for other people that get enough traffic to slow down my access) off onto an amazon site.
I started with experimenting with some of my blogs, and didn’t find any significant issue with the process.
I want to look at all the docs, find out the benefits of using amazon’s RDB system, elasticache (memory caching) etc.
Charges are based on having the system, then network traffic, disk space and disk access, for the simplest construct. So the question arises — if I hooked up a cache, could I keep everything in cache and have less disk access? would it be more efficient costwise? at a guess, no, I doubt all my sites combined could combine to anything noticeable on the scales those are probably structured at.
OTOH, running a business, it seems a sight simpler than the old business line concept, and then you can just hook it into their CDN and even distribute the site amongst their data centers so processing is done in local spaces (which I presume is when cache and their DB system come in really handy)