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first, i'm new to the board, it seems to be a great place, so i'm happy to get and contribute much valuable information here, thank you all for keeping this site running.
Ok, now my questions. We (my company i'm working for) try to create a webstrategy for a new product release. it is a online webapplication, where all the data of the users will be stored in databases and the users will come from usa and europe.
99.99% availability is a must, same for data integrity. Ammount of concurrent users at the beginning will be around 20'000. Technology will be IIS/MSSQL.
At the moment we are thinking of a solution with 1 dedicated server in europe and 2 virtual servers in USA (Amazon EC2).
Or 3 virtual servers in USA (Amazon EC2). It depense on the response time of the virtual servers.
Server 1 IIS & SQL Server (europe)
Server 2 IIS & SQL Server (usa)
Server 3 standby fallback Server IIS & SQL Server (usa)
1. Is this concept as good and low priced as it can get?
...money does matter:-/
2. Does anyone has any experience with this EC2-Service from Amazon? How reliable are they?
3. How can we route traffic regionaly? So that requests from usa will be processed in usa, and same for europe? (2 Domains, get region by request-ip, route to domain..). Does this makes a big diffrence in terms of response-time?
Thank you for any tipps or advices.
cheers fb
