Drupal To Rackspace Cloud
Hello,
I have a very very large drupal 5 website that I’m hosting currently on a cluster of load balanced dedicated servers. This is not an optimal setup as it can’t handle large spikes in traffic since the servers cannot be scaled in real time easily.
I’d like to move this site to use Rackspaces’ CloudServers – a hosting option that is similar to Amazon’s EC2 except a better API and some more options:
http://www.rackspacecloud.com/cloud_hosting_products/servers
I need for the ability to easily be able to scale the site. Now, I would say I have a basic understanding of server maintenance and linux, so if I need to do some command line stuff for this to happen with whatever solution you provide, I can do it.
The site also features many posters needing to upload files and pictures. What makes the most sense to enable easy scaling, is for files to be uploaded to a the CloudFiles CDN that I can get as well and use the drupal storage_api module:
http://drupal.org/project/storage_api
Now, the best idea might be to have one production server that scales out to the “outside” servers that can be made easily scalable.
I need someone I can work with one this.