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Setting Up CloudFront with an Origin Server
We have a couple of sites hosted on Amazon’s EC2 and I wanted to implement the CDN product from Amazon called CloudFront to see what performance improvements we could achieve. Having setup other CDN’s...
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We started working on Amazon’s EC2 instances several years ago. Eventually we moved several of our hosted environments to the cloud and used scripts to backup the MySQL DB’s and file systems to S3....
View ArticleRules for Surviving an Amazon Outage
Because of recent issues with Amazon’s services there is a lot of interest in why some companies are able to keep their site up despite their IaaS or PaaS providers experiencing issues. Here is an...
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Cascading Failures
I was chatting with Nanda Kishore (@nkishore) the ShareThis CTO about the recent problems Amazon had in one of their zones. Even though ShareThis is 100% in the cloud, because they have properly...
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