Like Amazon S3, but for PHP?

by Keith Gilbert

Posted: 13 years ago 7 replies

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Hey guys,

This might be a silly question, but is there a service like Amazon S3 for PHP scripts?

I have one fairly simple PHP script that NEEDS to have 99.9999% uptime. My shared hosting account doesn't cut it.

I know about cloud hosting, is that the best option? I've tried Rackspace Cloud but it is not compatible with my script.

Thanks,
Keith

#amazon #php

russjam 13 years ago

What is the issue with the script? Rackspace are normally pretty flexible so if it is just a matter of installing a very new (or very old) version of PHP then they are likely to oblige
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dgoodhart 13 years ago

dedicated or cloud would be fine
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jacktackett 13 years ago

Check out Amazon's EC2 - basically its like what S3 does for storage, EC2 does for LAMP architecture.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

good luck,
--Jack
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Headfirst 13 years ago

Rackspaces cloud shouldnt have any problems with a PHP script. What does it do thats so odd?
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CDarklock 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Keith Gilbert

I know about cloud hosting, is that the best option?

Yes. S3 is a feature-limited variety of cloud hosting.
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affiliatepro15 13 years ago

S3 and Cloudfront are designed to be content delivery networks... more for storage and less about application hosting. They recently added support for static HTML files as a added bonus so users could put simple pages up and have them render in the browser vs download.

EC2 is what you are looking for, but it will likely cost you $75 per month at the very least and you will be responsible for most of the consideration as it is very self serve and there is a learning curve.

Even EC2 is NOT rated for 6 9's (99.9999%). For that, it would likely be several hundred/thousand dollars per month. 5 -9's is more reasonable and in line with the better hosting companies.
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- RemingtonSteele 13 years ago
  
  It sounds like what you need is a reliable VPS host. I've been with ServInt for nearly two years, and they're awesome. If you're coming from a shared hosting environment, though, there will be a learning curve, but it's worth it. In my opinion, cloud hosting is over-hyped, overrated, and overpriced.
  
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