Improve your Web-Server's reliability and avoid downtime or slowness
If you are running a SAAS solution or business grade e-commerce site you will know the frustration of having your sites go down or even just being slow when there is high demand. In many cases your online presence is your business..
If the Web-Server or Web-Server hosting company you are using is unable to improve things for you, you may want to consider moving to AWS and potentially from a single mono-lithic architecture to a multi-tier, service-based architecture. How does this help? Well first, lets look at what each of these terms mean.
Mono-lithic simply means that all of the components required for a Web-Server's function is housed within a single Linux distribution or Windows Server. It lacks capabilities like scalability and redundancy. The separate components are also not able to be easily maintaine