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March 6, 2009

Scaling Drupal on the Amazon Cloud - Drupalcon presentation

@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 issues anyone will face hosting Drupal on the Amazon cloud.

Update: Alan Doucette was kind enough to post video of the talk. Thanks, Alan!

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March 4, 2009

Dries' Drupalcon keynote

 

  • code freeze Sept 1
  • Drupal 7 release when it's ready thereafter

 

 

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December 3, 2008

How I Sold Our Web Servers and Moved to the Cloud

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:

  • Drupal in the Cloud: Scaling with Drupal and Amazon Web Services.

http://www.slideshare.net/elstudio/drupal-in-the-cloud-scaling-with-aws-presentation?src=embed

Frank of Phase2 Technology and I put these together for today’s Northern Virginia Drupal Meetup. Thanks to everybody who came out for a listen.

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