Amazon EC2 cloud-based infrastructure

We are looking for a Bay Area or Pennsylvania/Ohio based developer with experience in Drupal and PHP to help build out the community and website for a newly emerging 3D game development platform. This is a community-based website that connects independent developers and gives them access to a powerful cloud based 3D game engine for the web. The vision for the company is something very new in gaming and you can join us in shaping the web experience and developing this online community. This is a full time contract position with the possibility of full-time employment.

We are looking for a Bay Area or Pennsylvania/Ohio based developer with experience in Drupal and PHP to help build out the community and website for a newly emerging 3D game development platform. This is a community-based website that connects independent developers and gives them access to a powerful cloud based 3D game engine for the web. The vision for the company is something very new in gaming and you can join us in shaping the web experience and developing this online community. This is a full time contract position with the possibility of full-time employment.

Hi everybody,

First of all, I am very new to Drupal and actually not actively coding myself but more involved as a project manager. However, as I've done some programming before and had some computer science modules at university I think I do have a basic grasp on the bigger issues around cloud computing.

We're just finishing a new system which we of course hope will become a huge hit but right now I am more concerned about general hosting issues.

We are currently looking at changing our hosting company so that we can ramp up our resources.

One of the options we looked at was Amazon's EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud). However, we backed away when our intial tests showed that transfer speed weren't very fast.

But, I was just wondering if anyone in the Newspaper on Drupal group has successfully trialled Cloud Computing and, if so, whether there were any tricks and traps if you wanted to run a good-sized Drupal newspaper site on a cloud-based infrastructure.

Cheers,

Geoff