Synopses & Reviews
Are you paying hundreds or thousands of dollars a month for old-school dedicated servers or rack space at a datacenter? Find out why companies like 37signals, livemocha, Urbanspoon and The Guardian already know: Cloud Computing is the future of webhosting.
Host Your Web Site in the Cloud is your step-by-step guide to this revolutionary approach to hosting and managing your websites & web applications.
Cloud computing gives you the tools you need to prepare and cope with a traffic onslaught while dramatically cutting your monthly costs. Imagine paying just pennies per hour for server usage, and dynamically scaling your hosting infrastructure based on demand.
You'll learn how to:
gain a thorough understanding of cloud computing master the fundamentals of Amazon Web Services install and configure visual and command line tools store, retrieve, and distribute data quickly and easily build applications that scale manage the monitoring, load balancing, and scaling capabilities of cloud computing
As a developer, you need room & flexibility to be innovative. Why waste time worrying about the technical aspects of server capacity? AWS handles security, load balancing, and server resources virtually so you're not restricted to one physical server.
With the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud you can launch new servers in minutes, pay just pennies per GB for bandwidth, and store terabytes of data at a fraction of the cost of using a traditional data center.
Stop wasting time, money, and resources on servers that can't grow with you. This books straightforward, practical advice and step-by-step guides will have you running your website on the cloud in no time
Synopsis
Host Your Web Site On The Cloud is a step-by-step guide to hosting web sites on Amazon EC2. Authored by Amazon's Senior Manager of Cloud Computing Solutions, Jeffrey Barr, this book covers all aspects of best-practice cloud hosting.
Coverage includes
- file and database storage - server management
- querying services - application management - performance and maintenance - scaling and load balancing - and much more .
As with all SitePoint book, Host Your Web Site On The Cloud will be written in an easy-to-read style to ensure readers can deploy their own fully functional cloud hosted web site in no time
Synopsis
Learn to use Amazon EC2 for scalable, stable, and very cost-effective hosting. Host Your Web Site On The Cloud is a step-by-step guide to hosting web sites on Amazon EC2. Authored by Amazon's Senior Manager of Cloud Computing Solutions, Jeffrey Barr, this book covers all aspects of best-practice cloud hosting.
Synopsis
Host Your Web Site On The Cloud is the OFFICIAL step-by-step guide to this revolutionary approach to hosting and managing your websites and applications, authored by Amazon's very own Jeffrey Barr.
"Host Your Web Site in the Cloud" shows you just how easy it is to host your website in the cloud with Amazon Web Services. We'll show you how cloud computing can save time, money, and stress. The process of hosting & developing on the cloud has never been simpler!
This book will help you:
- gain a thorough understanding of cloud computing
- master the fundamentals of Amazon Web Services
- transfer existing websites & applications to the cloud
- install and configure visual and command line tools
- store, retrieve, and distribute data quickly and easily
- build applications that scale
- manage the monitoring, load balancing, and scaling capabilities of cloud computing
As a developer, you need room & flexibility to be innovative. Why waste time worrying about the technical aspects of server capacity? AWS handles security, load balancing, and server resources virtually so you're not restricted to one physical server.
Synopsis
If you plan to build applications to run on Amazon's Web Services, this is precisely the book you need. Programming Amazon EC2 provides architects, developers, and administrators with an end-to-end approach to designing and building a practical application on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), a central part of the AWS platform. In the process, you'll focus on critical issues such as load balancing, scaling, monitoring, and automation.
How easy is it to move an existing application to AWS? How can you design your application so that it will scale effectively? How much storage will you require? This book provides clear answers to those questions and shows you how to build applications in the cloud.
- Recognize the lifecycle of an application on Amazon AWS and identify the tools and services you'll require
- Learn how to create, monitor, destroy, and configure EC2 instances
- Build your own tools to monitor your Amazon cloud applications
- Learn about a host of other services, including SimpleDB, SQS (queue services), RDS (relational database), Cloud Watch (monitoring), and more
- Eliminate trial and error when building AWS applications -- without taking the fun out of experimenting
Synopsis
If you plan to use Amazon Web Services to run applications in the cloud, the end-to-end approach in this book will save you needless trial and error. You'll find practical guidelines for designing and building applications with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and a host of supporting AWS tools, with a focus on critical issues such as load balancing, monitoring, and automation.
How do you move an existing application to AWS, or design your application so that it scales effectively? How much storage will you require? Programming Amazon EC2 not only helps you get started, it will also keep you going once you're successfully positioned in the cloud. This book is a must-read for application architects, developers, and administrators.
- Determine your application's lifecycle and identify the AWS tools you need
- Learn how to build and run your application as part of the development process
- Migrate simple web applications to the cloud with EC2, Amazon Simple Storage Service, and CloudFront content delivery
- Meet traffic demand with EC2's Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing
- Decouple your application using Simple Queue Service, Simple Notification Service, and other tools
- Use the right tools to minimize downtime, improve uptime, and manage your decoupled system
Synopsis
Host Your Web Site On The Cloud is your step-by-step guide to this revolutionary approach to hosting and managing your web applications.
Cloud computing gives you the tools you need to prepare and cope with a traffic onslaught. You'll have the confidence to withstand a traffic surge without melting your servers or sending you into bankruptcy.
There are a number of ways to use the cloud to host existing applications, build creative new ones, and improve the cost-effectiveness and efficiency or organizations large and small.
You'll learn how to:
- gain a thorough understanding of cloud computing
- master the fundamentals of Amazon Web Services
- install and configure visual and command line tools
- store, retrieve, and distribute data quickly and easily
- build applications that scale
- manage the monitoring, load balancing, and scaling capabilities of cloud computing
As a developer, you need room & flexibility to be innovative. Why waste time worrying about the technical aspects of server capacity? AWS handles security, load balancing, and server resources virtually so you're not restricted to one physical server.
About the Author
Jurg van Vliet graduated from the University of Amsterdam in Computer Science. After his internship with Philips Research, he worked for many web startups and media companies. Passionate about technology, he wrote for many years about it and its effects on society. He became interested in the cloud and started using AWS in 2007. After merging his former company, 2Yellows, with a research firm, he decided to start 9Apps, an AWS boutique that is an AWS solution provider and silver partner of Eucalyptus, together with Flavia. Give Jurg a scalability challenge, and he will not sleep until he solves itand he will love you for it.
Flavia Paganelli has been developing software in different industries and languages for over 14 years, for companies like TomTom and Layar. She moved to The Netherlands with her cat after finishing an MSc in Computer Science at the University of Buenos Aires. A founder of 9Apps, Flavia loves to create easy-to-understand software that makes peoples lives easier, like the Decaf EC2 smartphone app. When she is not building software, she is probably exercising her other passions, like acting or playing capoeira.