I spoke about how to host Drupal in the cloud at Drupalcamp Prague, 2009.

2. Student at University of Szeged

3. Drupal developer @ Pronovix

4. Linux enthusiastic

5. How to use Amazon EC2 for Drupal

8. Monthly cost is cheap

9. Is it reliable?

10. No customization

11. No server maintenance

13. Monthly cost is moderate

14. Is it reliable?

15. Is it fast?

16. Full customization

17. You have to maintain the software

18. Usually the memory is quite limited

20. Monthly cost is cheap

21. Is it reliable?

22. It's fast

23. Full customization

24. You have to maintain the software and the hardware

26. Monthly cost is moderate

27. Is it reliable?

28. Full customization (even in the hardware in minutes)

29. You have to maintain the software (and that's harder here)

31. Distributed

32. Dynamically scalable

33. Some terms

34. “ My server is fast and strong, why would I need that?”

35. Maybe you'll need more servers... like tomorrow

36. Hardware will eventually break down

37. You don't have to worry about those ^^

39. Nothing guarantees that if you start a server instance it will run 'til the end of time

40. The AMI s storage is not permanent!

43. Stores “ objects ”, “ buckets ” and “ keys ”

44. You have to design the application to use it

46. It can store any filesystem (and any file )

49. Store your drupal files and database on it! ( /var, and /home propably )

51. You can automatize things!

52. (Write aliases for the keys)

53. Browsing images not working in the eu? Seriously?

54. Command line

56. What works, works great

57. You cannot boundle images

58. Web console

60. No feedback that it's doing anything

61. It has a lot of options (and almost everything is working)

62. ( Install it in a different profile )

63. Elasticfox

66. mod_expire

67. ssh -C ( I mean we're talking about linux, right? )

68. ( net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse = 1 )

70. Apache mod_fastcgi / nginx + *fcgi

72. Bandwidth is okay, latency is slow

75. Use noatime , nodiratime ( /etc/fstab )

76. (Use ext4, data=writeback )

78. Use multisite (apc cache)

79. (Consider using nginx ?)

81. Full mysql 5.1 compilance (they said)

82. More instances can use it!

84. Not fitting for everybody