Symphony.

I would like to start a general topic about hosting Symphony based websites on Amazon. I was wondering if anybody here has experience with Amazon Web Services and what's your set-up.

I am thinking of following configuration:

• AMI on EC2 (Linux, Apache, PHP)
• Images, CSS and JS hosted on S3
• MySql hosted on Amazon Amazon RDS.

I am quite experienced with EC2 and S3, but I have never tried Amazon RDS. I have read some conflicting reviews about its speed.

Any tips?

I use S3 (Cloudfront) for hosting static assets (Anyone using a CDN along with Symphony), and I know at work most of our servers are on EC2, but I don't know specifics.

@qnn, did you discover any issues with RDS service in the end or was all well? looking into deploying a few sites on EC2 using symphony.

I'm running multiple Symphony powered websites on EC2 and it works like a charm. I'm not using RDS because none of the websites are large enough to see any added benefit from using this service opposed to installing MySQL on the AMI.

There are reports that EBS is slow, causing heavy load websites like Foursquare to choose for in-memory databases like MongoDB.

At work, we have a S3 bucket to serve all media content. In November, Amazon S3 has processed almost 750 million GET requests from our customers with a total of 32 TeraBytes of data. According to Google Analytics, our average load time (=full page displayed, not just DOM ready) is around 3 seconds. So I guess S3 is doing a pretty good job.

Thanks remie, that sounds nice and quick! Just looking at AMI stacks to use and will be playing over weekend!