Here’s my first try working with Amazon Web Services. Covered tasks are the following: – getting familiar with AWS, specially EC2 and S3. – working with EC2 instance using CentOS image – search, start/stop, and do some customization of an instance – create AMIs (private) and start instance from it. – S3 buckets – upload [...]
In this guide i will provide the steps in moving Drupal sites with CiviCRM – with Drupal and CiviCRM in one or separate databases. I will outline the steps and sample commands but won’t give much details, so feel free to ask if you need any clarifications. Also, refer to my previous guide on “HowTo [...]
We recently came across a problem with Cacti and the MySQL counters. For those of you who don’t know how to integrate MySQL statistics into Cacti have a look at this: http://code.google.com/p/mysql-cacti-templates/. These templates are a great way to gain some insight into how your MySQL database servers perform. The templates are actually PHP pages [...]
Finding application memory leaks is important part of keeping systems stable and often very hard to track down. Monitoring application memory consumption can be performed in a few different ways, the easiest is a simple capture of ps and append to log file triggered via cron at desired interval. In this example we will track [...]
Running apt-get update gives an error message: W: GPG error: http://ftp.us.debian.org etch Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9AA38DCD55BE302B W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs: 9AA38DCD55BE302B W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems A check [...]
This article is meant to be a quick quide that will introduce the things needed to get you started with Amazon EC2. All this information can be found in the EC2 api docs, and this is not meant to be a replacement of the documentation, just trying to show the things needed in a clear [...]
