I am about to plan and build a large scale REST service. Because of that I have looked into how I could make my setup in the cloud. At first I wanted to do it with Amazon RDS and Amazon EC2 – however I then looked into the various PHP cloud platform services (PHPFog, cloudControl, Orchestra) which looks like exactly what I want.
However I do have some questions regarding this:
- What is the overall difference between the three services? (PHPFog, cloudControl and Orchestra)
- I want a platform that can scale automatically at peak hours, meaning that I should not have to pay for the resources needed at peak hours all day. As to what I have read, PHPFog do not support elastic scaling?
- How well does these perform? Could big services like Twitter, facebook etc. run on these platforms?
- Does these services support backups?
- Anything else I should think of when choosing one of these platforms? Or perhaps should I not choose one of these?
PaaS Hosting is relativly new. I think no vendor is longer than 2 years out of Beta. The scene changes rapidly, more and more Startups are entering the market. And it’s hard to compare them, each has it’s own unique style and pricing model.
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