Alistair Hann — runs Zoombu
More detail may be available on lanyrd
- started off running a dedicated host, LAMP stack
- started using flexiant (FlexiScale)
- moved to AWS to have images (flexiant didn’t have them -- though it does now)
- use ElasticFox to manage instances
- elastic IP can be moved from machine to machine within a few minutes
- useful for IP-restricted services
- zoombu have four servers running continually
- 1 front end
- 1 Java services
- 2 MySql servers
- failures can be grim — make sure you have redundancy
- backups of EBS volumes
- backups of images
