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Edmonds Commerce are a UK based E-Commerce web development agency. We are based in Shipley which is in Yorkshire near Leeds and Bradford.

Our primary specialism is Magento and Magento2 and other PHP based E-Commerce platforms such as OpenCart.

In terms of technology we are very strong in PHP, MySQL, Linux, HTML, CSS and Javascript.

Using Magento with Amazon EC2

Mar 7, 2013 · 1 minute read
Category: magento

What EC2 is and how it differs from standard hosting

Aside from shared hosting, Virtual Private Servers and Dedicated Servers, another form is cloud hosting. EC2 is Amazon’s answer to this

EC2 allows you to run “instances” which are prebuilt images which from your perspective is just like a virtual machine. The difference being that it’s in no way fixed to a physical machine, or even datacentre.

Using Magento with EC2

Obviously there are prebuilt images for various platforms (Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian etc) and Magento can be installed on these as with any server.

If you’d like to avoid that Bitnami provides a very nice Magento EC2 instance which has Magento running out of the box, and it’s really the best way to get started with Magento on EC2.

One issue we have previously hit is the machine reporting itself to be out of disk space, but actually the issue was down to running out of what are known as inodes. We’ve documented this previously, but should be a very rare case