Screaming Fast Servers
Good Gallery contracts with Amazon Web Services (AWS) providing you with access to the best cloud-based website hosting platform.
AWS offers various levels of availability and different server configurations based on the budgets of their customers. Good Gallery uses R3 instances—the latest generation of Amazon EC2 memory-optimized servers.
One of the things that sets Good Gallery apart from similar companies hosting on AWS is that we’ve chosen the most robust hardware configurations available. This means that we don’t compromise on our hardware to save money on our monthly hosting bills.
Hosting providers like Good Gallery can save money by reducing processing power. However, that kind of thinking is contrary to our primary mission of providing the fastest photographer websites available anywhere.
With that in mind, we invest thoughtfully in hardware and select the optimal configurations that will best help visitors see your website faster.
Robust configurations mean that our application servers can process requests at incredible speeds while our database servers are able to serve dynamic content almost instantly.
EBS
We use Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) to provide you with SSD access and capacity that delivers superior results for high-performance websites. These volumes also allow us to quickly increase capacity on demand.
ElastiCache
Amazon’s ElastiCache is a memory tool that provides us with sub-millisecond response times for blazing-fast performance on many of our operations. This tool also manages our server clusters and allows us to scale on demand. This means that we can easily grow our systems as demands grow.
Lambda
Some of our processes are managed by AWS Lambda. This means that we can run process-intensive code without impacting our web servers. This helps ensure that we can scale to any demands on our systems almost instantly.
Distributed Systems
Good Gallery content is distributed by servers located all over the world.