Posts Tagged "Bash"

Splitting Tar Archives…

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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What fun Amazon EC2 is – Part 1: Instance Management

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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