I am currently looking into the possibility of using a hosted email environment. AppTheory has used an internal Exchange server for mail since the company started.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a set of cloud based infrastructure web services that are offered to developers and companies. These services provide expandable and flexible infrastructure to user. The are several parts to the cloud infrastructure. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides compute capacity in the cloud. This compute capacity is provided by Amazon Machine Instances (AMIs). The machine instances can provide cloud based virtual servers with windows and *nix based operating systems.

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I have noticed that a couple of tutorials have gone into the basics for setting up DNN on AWS with two separate instances. One instance is the frontend web server and the other instance is a backend SQL server. Two security groups are created one for the Web server (WebGroup) and one for the SQL server (SQLGroup). This is a common setup that we have performed many times at AppTheory.

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Last week I talked about how AppTheory uses Amazon CloudWatch to help monitor our DNN instances on AWS EC2. CloudWatch also allows AWS EC2 users to enable Auto Scaling. Auto Scaling allows for the seamless scaling of Amazon EC2 instances “during demand spikes to maintain performance.” Auto Scaling also allows for an application to gracefully scale down “during demand lulls to minimize costs.

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One of the tools that I have been using for quick monitoring of the DNN web and SQL instances AppTheory manages at AWS is CloudWatch. CloudWatch is a monitoring system much like the taskmgr on your server that lets you see a quickly monitor your instances CPU, Disk Reads/Writes, In/out network traffic.

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