Cloud Servers/Hosting

Sylus Dauntless Development is a big believer in using the reliable and established technologies whereever possible to deliver scalable and performant client hosting solutions on the internet.

Should you choose to go with Sylus Development you have the following options at your disposal

• Shared Cloud Instance: Have your website(s) / web application(s) hosted on one of our custom EC2 instances with other clients.
• Dedicated Cloud Instance: Have your website(s) / web application(s) hosted on a custom EC2 instance devoted to just you.
• Database Options: While you can host your database(s) inside any of our EC2 instances, it may also be of benefit to use Amazon RDS for your database needs thanks to its wide array of features. This can be set up on both shared and/or dedicated cloud instance(s).

Amazon RDS

Never lose your database again. Should you choose to host your website with Sylus Development you can rest assured of data retention and scalability thanks to Amazon RDS.

Service highlights of Amazon RDS

• Secure and production ready relational database on high end and reliable infrastructure
• Automatic handling of time consuming database management tasks (patches, backups, replication)
• Scale automatically based on database and application load
• Enhanced reliability through automated backups, and database snapshots
  •   Automated Backups: Point in time recovery for database instance
  •   Database Snaphots: User iniated backups of database instance

Amazon EC2 / Custom Instance

Lightyears ahead of shared/dedicated/VPS solutions, cloud hosting provided by and properly configured through Amazon EC2 can help your web solutions really have impact. At Sylus Dauntless Development we have perfected some custom EC2 instance(s) so you can experience the power of Amazon EC2 without having to get bogged down in the development.

Service highlights of Amazon EC2

• Elasticity: Amazon EC2 allows you to scale both horizontally and vertically at the click of a button
• Ability to select a pre-configured, templated Amazon Machine Image (AMI) containing your applications, libraries, data, associated configuration settings and even OS.
• Custom security and network access across all EC2 instances

Sylus EC2 custom instance (Codenamed: Illumination)

• Supported AMI: Each of our personalized EC2 instances are built on top of Amazon's Linux AMI (CentOS 5) which provides constant security and operating system updates
• Automated backup to Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) for daily backups of your filesystem
• Database performance: Optimized my.cnf file for blazing fast InnoDB MySQL databases (can also host MySQL databases on Amazon RDS)
• Varnish: All of our instances have been set up to use reverse proxy caching through varnish to give blazing fast websites and web / applications
• Memcached: Should your website / web application have a high amount of database querying, memcached is installed to both speed up and alleviate database load