Posted by Jon on Mar 27, 2009 in Amazon AWS, PHP, Zend Framework | 0 comments
So about two weeks ago Wil Sinclair from Zend pinged me about creating an Zend Framework API interface for Amazon Ec2. I was coming off of playing around with Ec2 for work and figured I would give it a shot. With the proposal filed I began the task of coding it out. After two weeks of writing code I had a working interface for the Query API from Amazon.
I do have to say I learned a lot while doing the inital work and I’m happy that Wil pinged me to do it. If you want to check out the code currently it lives on github but it is on track to make the 1.8 release of Zend Framework.
Please leave a commet here or on the proposal for anything that I may have over looked or if you have any ideas on how I could make it better.
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Posted by Jon on Mar 6, 2009 in Amazon AWS, Development | 0 comments
With working on deploying sites on Amazon EC2 we wanted to cut down on the time that it took to sync the sites from our seed servers to the new server. Our logical way to do this was to put a snapshot of the sites are Amazon S3 as a tgz file. Our sites are around 2gb each and while that is no problem to S3 as it max file size is 5gb but in interest of taking less time to upload each site and save on the chance of the file be corrupted on upload we decided to split the files.
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Posted by Jon on Mar 4, 2009 in Amazon AWS, Development | 1 comment
So as of late I have been doing a lot of programming to have a some what automated way to scale out indycar.com and indy500.com when the time calls for us to scale out. To scale out we are using Amazon EC2 with a great deal of success. Last year we successfully made it through a season with using EC2. The biggest problem we ran into was the time it took to scale out.
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