Thank you Clifford for the heads up and your advice!
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 1:32 AM, CLIFFORD ILKAY <clifford_il...@dinamis.com>wrote: > On 03/01/2014 11:21 AM, Robin Lery wrote: > > Very nicely explained! I was actually hoping to use Amazon RDS with > > postgresql. Your help was very useful. Thank you! > > There is another issue if your application has to deal with user > uploaded files, such as photos, PDFs, etc. You must consider the > instances in an autoscaling cluster to be volatile because they can come > and go automatically. Consequently, you must have a way of ensuring that > either the filesystems of those instances are synchronized or store user > contributed files on Amazon S3. Fortunately, we have pluggable storage > in Django so it's easy to do the latter. > > If you ever have to deploy an application that doesn't have that, as we > did, we ended up creating an NFS cluster in a VPC (Virtual Private > Cloud) and the instances in the autoscaling group mounted the exported > NFS filesystem. The autoscale instances had two network interfaces, one > for the public Internet and another for the internal network in the VPC, > so the NFS cluster was not exposed to the Internet. > > -- > Regards, > > Clifford Ilkay > > 647-778-8696 > > Dinamis > > <http://dinamis.com> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/53123CF0.9030005%40dinamis.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CA%2B4-nGpSS5oj5SrL-%3DV21ODWvOi3v%3DTJoHQJTgOdPn-n29M%3D-w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
