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Some thoughts for setting up a high performance Drupal stack:

Needs:

• High availability for an estimated 4,800 users.
• Traffic will be modest with heavy spikes during certain times.
• Traffic will be mainly authenticated users.
• Needs to be 100% reliable, especially during the spikes.

Solutions

• One server dedicated to MySQL.
  • EC2 instance running MySQL and not much else?

Today I had the unfortunate need to get a restored database from an Amazon EBS snapshot. To do this I logged into the Amazon AWS management console and determined which snapshot I needed to restore from. Once I highlighted the correct snapshot, I clicked the 'Create Volume' button. Next, I chose which availability zone the snapshot should reside in and click 'Create' Next, I spun up a new instance of the production server, using the same AMI (ami-294aa340).