Monte Goulding wrote: >> On 9 Jan 2016, at 11:45 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> >> I've used that and it seems to work well enough, but my concern is >> that if scaled large enough it may be even better to not have a >> single instance handling all connections. > > Isn't that when you deploy your app on EC2 instances with Elasitc > Load Balancer and all your static content served by CloudFront > from S3?
If Amazon was the only way to run web sites that assumption would be correct.
But needs vary. Amazon's great for many things, but no single solution is the best option for all needs. For example, game servers like Eve Online don't use Amazon.
Everything in life involves tradeoffs. Having managed elastic VPSes valuable for many contexts but isn't a free ride - file I/O is one of several consideration when comparing options:
<http://blog.awe.sm/2012/12/18/aws-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/> <http://webhosting.about.com/od/Hosting-Issues/a/Ec2-Amazon-Problems.htm> <http://serverfault.com/questions/296410/cost-and-trade-offs-of-ec2-vs-hosted-vps-for-a-lamp-site-with-1m-uniques> <http://uncrunched.com/2013/08/07/digital-ocean-v-aws-10x-performance-for-13-cost/> -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ____________________________________________________________________ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
