By jkestler on

I've read the various deprecated threads on Drupal and Amazon's EC2. Does anyone know if using EC2 to host/run a Drupal site is a feasible option for someone with limited programming experience? I've read about elastic IP issues, etc, but I've also read sites like http://www.elastic8.com/ that run Drupal on EC2.

Thanks for any advice!

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tebb’s picture

tebb commented

Hi ErnieM,

AKalsey has added this project that you might be interested in:

http://drupal.org/project/ec2ami

From memory an AMI is an Amazon Machine Image.

It sounds like much of the hard work has been done for someone with "limited programming experience".

At the time of writing it is described as follows:

The AMI includes a full LAMP stack for Drupal.

* Fedora Core 8 Linux
* Apache 2.2.9
* PHP 5.2.6
* MySQL 5.0.45
* Drupal Installer for any version of your choice

The database has been tuned for performance and a number of tables converted to InnoDB to improve performance.

BTW: I guess you know that Amazon have a calculator for estimating the cost of running an AMI on the cloud. I was disappointed that it is charged on 'uptime' rather than some measure of server load.

Cheers, Dru-p

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Michael Beechey commented

Just found out my host can't/won't do uploading/encoding of media files...anything new on the EC2/S3 combo for D6?

thanks!

bsorrells’s picture

bsorrells commented

I wrote this to try to help some people. I do it manually.

http://www.byronsorrells.com/entrepreneurship/creating-your-online-busin...

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snext commented

We're considering moving to the cloud and EC2 in particular for our Drupal instance (http://snext.org). I've found a few tutorials on Drupal on EC2, but they're generally two years or so old, and EC2 seems to be rapidly changing, so wanted to know if anyone was aware of a more recent one.

Also, I see that there's EC2 AMI module. But it doesn't appear to have much activity, and is a couple years since an update, so not sure we should be using it.

Any general advice on Drupal on EC2 would of course be great to hear. Thanks.

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biff45452 commented

Here is an updated tutorial for installing drupal on EC2. http://www.thingaweek.com/how-install-drupal-amazon-ec2