CloudFront Plugin For Joomla!

Nov 19

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Yesterday, Amazon released their CloudFront Content Delivery Network (CDN), which finally makes true, fast CDN’s available at an affordable price to mere mortals.

As usual, I jumped on the challenge and quickly implemented a Joomla! 1.5 native plugin for the service. This plugin automatically moves your sites static content (images, css, javascript) to the CloudFront CDN, thereby providing faster loadtimes for your users … especially those users that are geographically “far away” from your servers.

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amazon cloud computing – super stable for 5 months

Aug 31

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I’m taking down an EC2 instance I’ve been running nearly 5 months …

23:15:47 up 149 days, 13:02, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Up so long that it doesn’t support the persistent storage.

It took me about 2 hours to backup, bring up a new instance, and rsync things over.

Then I moved the ip (it was already using the elastic IP’s), and it’s running fine.

Adding a new 100GB disk was easy, and my old daily “backup to s3″ scripts can be changed to simply take a snapshot. Life has just gotten much simpler.

So now I need to “terminate” the old instance … kind of a harsh word for something that I’ve used daily. By-by i-6279de0b.