The Evolution of Hosting and What's Next in Cloud Architecture - EE Conf 2018
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VP of Sales at Nexcess.net, Josh Ward, will talk on the evolution of hosting and how the first iteration of cloud still leaves something to be desired. Josh will cover the difficulties of replicating production environments for development and how your focus should be on service, not server.
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The Evolution of Hosting and What's Next in Cloud Architecture - EE Conf 2018
- 1. The Evolution of Hosting and What’s Next in Cloud Architecture
- 9. Zach Morris Brick Phone Greatest phone of all time
- 11. Who are you and why are you here?
- 12. Also, this still happens and it should bother you.
- 13. Back in the day...
- 14. Shared Hosting Multi-Tenant - Good/bad neighbors Scaling Options - Vertical...maybe Upgrade Options - Shared - Dedicated - Cluster - Migration tax It’s easy, and it works. What about development? PublicNetwork BackupNetwork Roles: - Web + SSL - DB - File Server - Redis - PHP - Load Balancer Firewall
- 15. Dedicated Hosting Single Tenant Scaling Options - Vertical - Maybe addons like a DB Upgrade Options - Bigger/newer dedicated - Cluster - Migration tax It’s mostly easy, and it works. What about development? PublicNetwork BackupNetwork Roles: - Web + SSL - DB - File Server - Redis - PHP - Load Balancer Firewall
- 16. Enterprise Cluster Environment Scaling Options - Vertical - More DB, Redis, web/PHP, SOLR Upgrade Options - Add servers - Add resources - Push code to nodes - Admin Server - Nothing “instant” It’s complicated and it works. What about development? BackupandClusterNetwork Web+SSL PHP Roles/Servers DB (storage) File Server Redis LB PublicNetwork
- 17. A.K.A - Enterprise Cloud Environment Scaling Options - Maybe More network options Upgrade Options - Very little is truly “instant” It’s complicated and it works. What about development? BackupandClusterNetwork Web+SSL PHP Roles/Servers DB (storage) File Server Redis LB PublicNetwork
- 18. Migrations, and Development, and Scaling. Oh My! - Little innovation in cloud architecture. - Migrations suck. - What data triggers scaling events? - Not application specific. - Rigid development tools. - Local dev environments different from production. - Doesn’t help you run your business. - Hosting becomes a bottleneck to launch. - All this and we still need performance, security, and uptime.
- 19. A Quick Public Service Announcement
- 21. Environments Built for Specific Applications
- 23. Resource Based Auto Scaling
- 24. Remote Development Site Creation
- 25. Local Development Site Creation
- 26. Versioning and GIT Flow the Nexcess Way!
- 28. Serverless or Service Oriented Architecture
- 29. - Innovation in architecture! - No more migrations! - Intelligent scaling events! - For your application and for the way you develop! - No more wasted time with mismatched dev environments! - Hosting that helps you run business better! - Launch at your pace! - Performance, security and uptime! - Support! Beyond Hosting
Editor's Notes
- One thing I like about doing these presentations is I get to do some pretty fun image searches and call it “work”. Here’s some of my favorites when searching evolution.
- I tried to find a few of these you could identify with, so you would identify with me maybe, and we’d be friends for at least the next hour or so. So here goes for my Star Wars fans out there.
- And this one for those of us battling against our Dad Bods.
- ...and for the zombie, or walking dead, fans.
- I call this one the “Evolution of the Boot” Some things don’t need to be improved on.
- I’m a big shoe guy, a sneaker head if you will, I don’t like feet, they’re gross, but I love shoes.
- I know we all have smartphones now, but who had one of the Zack Morris brick phones?
- Being based in outside of Detorit, MI we’re a bit partial the automobile industry. This one was interesting because BMW is sort of known for innovation. Be it the way the car handles or the interior, or the nav/computer system, they always seem to be iterating and overall they make great cars. Then there’s the LADA classic, which went largely unchanged for decades. It was reliable, had a low cost of ownership, and you could drive them forever. Not much innovation, it just worked. This is something to keep in mind as we get into the meat of the session.
- My name is Josh Ward and I work for Nexcess. We’ve been around since 2001, own and operate data centers, started working with ExpressionEngine back in 2012, providing managed web hosting to wide variety of EE websites, and the evolution of our industry is something we’ve been thinking about...a lot...like all the time.
- It does, I was at a networking event on Friday and met someone from a large web design firm with offices in the US and Italy. They design and host large, brand name sites you’ve probably been to or bought lumber/nails/light bulbs/plumbing supplies from before. Like a good sales person I asked who they used for hosting? He said in their offices and that it was funny I mentioned that. Apparently it’s getting hot in their offices in Italy because it’s summer and they have no ac. So people are bringing AC units into the office and the increased load is bringing down the servers. If you’re a merchant this should scare you, if you’re a developer you shouldn’t be doing this, if you are doing this see me after the presentation, we’ll help you, the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.
- Back in the day, like 1995ish, if you wanted to host a website you either needed your own server, an internet connection, and knowledge of all things computer science or you needed an account at places like Geocities, Angelfire, and Tripod. The genesis of what we’ve come to know, love, and hate...shared hosting.
- Largely unchanged since the early 2000’s. You can develop locally, but you’re local environment never quite matches up to the production environment, makes testing difficult, you can duplicate the site as an addon domain or secondary domain but then you’ve got dev and production in the same environment which isn’t great, also there’s typically a lack of dev ops tools built into the control panel which means you’re relying on 3rd party or bespoke tools.
- Very similar to shared hosting, it’s easy because it’s managed, essentially the same development issues. At this price point you can probably afford a smaller dev server, if you’re doing you’re own management of the system it’s easier to duplicate the environment locally for dev, but then you have to go through the trouble of updating two or more systems everytime you make a change, also, you need sys admin help at some point to support the server and keep things up to date, more PCI considerations etc. Without a good managed service provider this becomes mostly hard instead of mostly easy. Also, these considerations are largely true for any kind of single instance virtual or cloud server.
- Again, similar considerations as a dedicated in terms of support, management, and development, but it still works. We do a bunch of this and it’s still hard. It can be quick and it can scale. It does work.
- What we, the hosting industry, has largely done is just virtualize our “traditional” cluster environments. Each server is still playing multiple roles, all servers are still exposed to the public network, dev ops tools can be rigid and may not fit your approach, it’s not an application focused architecture, meaning you may not need apache to scale for your application, but if you need more PHP you’re getting more apache too.
- These are our lions and tigers and bears...oh my. These are problems and short falls we’ve traditionally had too. (Need to be a bit self deprecating here before showing off the awesomesauce).
- Chris Wells Plumbtrician quote/story.
- Accelerator Stack explanation
- You’ll set the type of environment for tagging purposes, select location, size, and then SSH keys. The keys are more secure, prevent the emailing of passwords, and are probably something you’re already using.