Application resource upgrades

[park-junha]

The following resources need to be upgraded:

Database

Currently stored on remotemysql.com, and is one of the two main reasons the current live application is slow. We need to migrate it to one of the following:

• AWS RDS
• Microsoft Azure MySQL Both of these services are incredibly fast and scale well.

  Web Hosting

  Currently hosted by Heroku with free dynos. This is the other main reason why the live web app is slow, since Heroku unloads applications with zero traffic (causing a 10-second load whenever the URL to the application is called). We could migrate to:

• Google App Engine
• Google Compute Engine We will also need to purchase a custom domain name (most likely gradplanner.com or gradplanner.me, something of the sort). We will also need to run it over HTTPS (#82), which encrypts users' data (this is important because we want users to feel safe using our application).

More will be added here as needed.

[park-junha]

database moved to AWS RDS (#126)

[park-junha]

Moved to AWS