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Because I'm having some issues with a high server load on my shared hosting, I'm thinking about migrating to Amazon Web Services.

I can choose for S3 as a stable solution, or for S2 as a cloud solution (?), but I'm not sure what's the best? I've read Amazon is great for static hosting (images, etcetera), but my application is completely written in PHP/MySQL. Am I able to run this on Amazon?

So, can I see Amazon as a real webhoster, or just only as a place to store files (with a domain linked to this storage)?

Hope you can help me out!

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With EC2 you basically have one or more complete virtual computers totally under your control, so you can run anything you want on them.

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But before I can use this 'virtual computer' as a webhost, I have to install PHP/MySQL myself? And what about software like cPanel? – Robin Feb 27 '11 at 19:28
Yes, it's basically exactly the same stuff you'd have to do if you ordered an actual server from Dell and plugged it into the Internet. You have to install an OS, applications, databases, whatever. – Pointy Feb 27 '11 at 19:36
Pointy except there are more security issues and dns handling you have to worry about, @Robin. – Cawas Apr 25 '11 at 23:37
@Robin yes, that's true to some extent, though it's not really much different than the sort of things you'd deal with in a "real" datacenter. Instead of offloading your firewall duties to some Cisco equipment, you simply do it yourself, if you want; you can set up whatever topology you think is appropriate. – Pointy Apr 26 '11 at 3:40
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according to Pointy , but rember :

Bandwidth CPU RAM

are concurrent in the invoice calculation ;) I'm sure that you have tested the load of the DB and of the php parser , only after that you can understand what you system need . In my humble expirience i've seen many "DBA" ( or known as that ) that have no prepared an optimized structure fot the table / DB after little optimisations the application gained about 1000% ( yes thousand ) of speed . I've wrote this just to point on the faxct that amazon seems "gold" (now start flame!) .

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This doesn't answer the question and is pretty hard to understand to boot. – ceejayoz Jun 4 '11 at 15:02
agree, that should be a comment. but what he's saying (if i understood) is that understanding what you are doing (and Robin doesn't sounds the most experienced guy in the field) pays off in performance better than the best of hosting. – gcb Dec 24 '11 at 4:04

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