Stories, software and strategies to help nonprofits do the social web
@febbraro and I presented our work hosting Drupal on Amazon AWS at Drupalcon last night. Thanks to everybody who could make it. Slides below for download. We talked about scaling challenges we face doing nonprofit campaigns for the Case Foundation. These are typically limited-time campaigns, with press releases or other promotion. Our challenge has been supporting relatively high loads for a short time — without going broke. Amazon’s EC2 servers-on-demand have been great for this. Here’s how we use AWS, and architectural...
March, 6 2009 • 0 Comments • 1 Faves
code freeze Sept 1 Drupal 7 release when it's ready thereafter
March, 4 2009 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
At NTEN, the nonprofit tech conference, last year I met a developer who was really exited. One of the vendors on the floor was giving away Pentium 3 processors, and he had a box that could use an extra boost. Me, I never touch hardware anymore. In fact, I don’t really know how many servers we’ve got — or where they are. Amazon knows. About six months ago we switched all our production servers to Amazon’s EC2 cloud infrastructure. As for how we moved to Amazon — and why we did it — check out this set of slides...
December, 3 2008 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves