Transcript Best Practices for Integrating CFCs with Fusebox

Reduce bandwidth and
save money with
Amazon's S3
Adam Howitt
www.adamhowitt.com
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November 1, 2007
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About Adam Howitt
• Over 7 years ColdFusion
– 1 ½ years at MacKay & Company…
– 3 years at Biolab in Atlanta
– 3 years at Duo Consulting in Chicago
• Independent Consultant for 1 month
– Load testing – www.poundmyserver.com
– Google Analytics, SEO and Optimizer
• Google Maps
– http://www.walkjogrun.net
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CF Hosting
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ColdFusion, SQL Server, IIS
Good price, good service
Shared hosting, shared failures
No control
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Self Hosted Hardware
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BlueDragon, MySQL, Apache, Postfix
4 x P3s
Static IP address
WRT54g router
Large closet
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Self Hosting Practically
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Cheap
Many domains
Full control
Vacuum cleaners
Hairdryers
Whining fans
Closet space
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Why is the Internet Slow?
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“If you have a problem,
if no one else can help, and
if you can find them,
maybe you can hire... The A-Team”
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Overview of Amazon Web
Services
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E-commerce Service (ECS)
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Flexible Payments (FPS)
Mechanical Turk
Simple Storage Service (S3)
Simple Queue Service (SQS)
Alexa Site Thumbnail
Alexa Top Sites
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Amazon S3 Overview
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REST based service
Access Control Lists
Upload static content
Encrypted uploads
Content delivery network
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Amazon S3 Pricing
• Storage
$0.15 per GB-Month of storage used
• Data Transfer
$0.10 per GB - all data transfer in
$0.18 per GB - first 10 TB / month data transfer out
$0.16 per GB - next 40 TB / month data transfer out
$0.13 per GB - data transfer out / month over 50 TB
• Requests
$0.01 per 1,000 PUT or LIST requests
$0.01 per 10,000 GET and all other requests
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Uploading to S3
• Browser plugin - S3fox
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3247
• ColdFusion S3.cfc
• http://www.ajaxcf.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/9/7/Ama
zon-S3-REST-Wrapper
– getBuckets()
– getBucket(), putBucket() and deleteBucket()
– getObject(), putObject() and deleteObject()
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Incorporating S3 to
WalkJogRun.net
• User creates a route
• Overview is saved to a database
• Old System
– Waypoint XML files saved to file system
– XML Files loaded with AJAX
• New System
– Waypoint XML files sent to S3
– XML Files loaded from S3 with an AJAX proxy
• Nothing is saved locally
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Results
• Load test - 10x faster than my own server
• Bandwidth reduced on my network to 33%
(178k > 66k) per page
• Pricing
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Ideas for the Service
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Movies
Podcasts
Offsite Backups
All your static files
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Questions
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Adam Howitt
(312) 714 9229
[email protected]
http://www.webdevref.com/blog
http://www.walkjogrun.net
http://www.adamhowitt.com
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