Amazon Web services & Nanowrimo

Hosting
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Hi all,

New to this place. Been a customer of Sitepoint since last year.

I couldn’t help but notice. Despite all the good promotions on how Amazon Web Services automatically increases load when traffic increases…

Nanowrimo, is now experiencing what seems to be a Load Problem. Thousands of writers like myself are stuck, waiting for pages to load.

Should I be concerned with moving my work to Amazon Web Services?

I was planning this next year, but after seeing day one on Nanowrimo.org … could someone from amazon or sitepoint explain what could be causing it?

Thanks

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I am not sure, but I heard Amazon Web Services are very expensive for what they offer and it only makes sense if your website is really very large.

I would get help moving your stuff over. Might be a nightmare otherwise…

3

I believe if that can be covered by traditional web hosting services that would be good idea to use traditional web hosting services for that purpose. And that will be cheaper.
IMO

4

Any cloud platform is only going to scale as far as your budget and your application allows. Just placing it on a cloud platform and hoping it will scale isn’t going to work. It could be a couple of things for them:

  1. They can’t afford to pay any more at the moment, so they can’t add more resources to cope with their traffic

or

  1. Their application simply isn’t designed to scale all that well

Cloud hosting is not a magic bullet, it takes time, money and knowledge to make it work.

Thanks,

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Well said! It seems people tend to think of the “Cloud” as the end-all for all issues. It’s still just a hosting platform and although it tends to be more redundant than regular hosting, it can still have it’s outages and failures as well.