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Nov 25, 2007

The new server(s)!

If you see this then you’re on spiffy new servers hosted by Amazon’s EC2. Hopefully they can handle the load a bit better. Right now I’m on a 2 webserver and 1 db server configuration. It’s a bit small, but I built it to grow pretty easily.

I actually had 2 dbs clustered, but funky stuff was happening with missed heartbeats on Amazon’s new NAT addressing. I started a thread about it on their forum here

2 Comments, Comment or Ping

  1. Anthony Chivetta

    Question for you about EC2: what are you doing to keep data persistent between restarts of the mysql instances? Are you storing it is S3? If so, how?

    I am looking at EC2 eagerly for a few projects, but (in my limited research) haven’t seen a good (read: simple) answer to that problem.

    Thanks!

    Nov 25th, 2007

  2. billy

    Hi Anthony,

    Yes, I created a script that backs up the databases hourly and puts them on s3. You can use mysqldump or several other ways to get the database contents.

    Of course a cluster offers no data loss — but I kept having problems with it (either my own fault or amazon’s)

    Nov 26th, 2007

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