Hosting
Lately, we have been involved in a project where our clients needed a site capable of serving a large number of anonymous users and a reasonable number of concurrently logged in users. In order to reach these goals, we looked to the cloud. I'll give a quick overview of our configuration using nginx, boost, apc, cacherouter, memcached, and glusterfs. This has allowed us to scale up considerably.
Our clients often ask for their site to be hosted with a Canadian provider. Some do this because they are government organizations with specific purchasing guidelines and some do it because they are patriotic.
