AmishGeek.com Rotating Header Image

wordpress

Amishgeek.com now with more Cloud Power

I recently decided to migrate some of my sites to the amazon ec2 cloud.  Now this site (www.amishgeek.com) is hosted entirely on Amazon’s EC2.  I’m using a triplet of micro instances behind an Elastic Load balancer to serve up this site and a couple others.  I’m using GlusterFS as a distributed filesystem to keep files synced between my instances.

I also enabled w3-total-cache which greatly speeds up pageload times and caching, as well as using S3 + cloudfront as a content delivery network (cdn) for delivering static content.

Look forward for another post with greater in-depth details on how I accomplished this.

Time for an upgrade

Well, I thought it’s about time to upgrade from wordpress 2.0.5 to 2.6.2.  Hopefully this new version of wordpress is somewhat impressive, as I’ve been starting to lean towards MovableType as my new blogging engine of choice.

But we’ll see… :)