Migrating Existing PHP Web Applications to the Cloud
Ionut VODA · Informatica Economica · 2014
The purpose of this paper is to present a set of best practices for moving PHP web applications from a traditional hosting to a Cloud based one.PHP applications are widespread nowadays and they come in many shapes and sizes and that is why they require a special attention.The paper goes beyond just moving the code in the Cloud and setting up the run-time environment as some architectural changes must be done at application level most of the time.The decision of how and when to make these changes can make the difference between a successful migration and a failed one.It will be presented how to decouple and scale an application, how to scale a database while following the high availability principles.