I need a comprehensive understanding of the Best Practices for a Galaxy Production Server. (i) I've read "Running Galaxy in a Production Environment" and associated wikis (ii) I saw the presentations "Building Scalable Galaxy (2010)", "Deploying Galaxy on the Cloud (2010)", and "Cloudman: Galaxy on the Cloud". (iii) I've searched the mailing list. Are there any other *undocumented pitfalls/tips *that we should be aware of for a Cloudman/Amazon install? Security would be a high priority for this list. Below are a list of references I've compiled for my own list: Running Galaxy in a Production Environment<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Admin/Config/Performance/ProductionServer> Sildes: Building Scalable Galaxy 2010<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Events/GDC2010?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=GDC2010_building_scalable.pdf> Deploying Galaxy on the Cloud, 2010<https://bytebucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/wiki/DevConf2010/galaxy_devconf_2010_cloud.pdf> Configure Apache Proxy to Galaxy<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Admin/Config/Apache%20Proxy> Configure nginx Proxy to Galaxy<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Admin/Config/Performance/nginx%20Proxy> Running Tests <http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Admin/Running%20Tests> Presentation: CloudMan: Galaxy on the Cloud, 2011<http://vimeo.com/24870202> Cloudman Capacity Planning for AWS<http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/CloudMan/AWS/CapacityPlanning> Using Amazon EBS Volumes <http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/> Copying an Amazon EBS Snapshot<http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-copy-snapshot.html> ** Rob Leclerc, PhD <http://www.linkedin.com/in/robleclerc> <https://twitter.com/#!/robleclerc> P: (US) +1-(917)-873-3037 P: (Shanghai) +86-1-(861)-612-5469 Personal Email: rob.leclerc@aya.yale.edu