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Amazon EC2 prices fall + High Memory Instances + RDS

October 27th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Amazon announced a couple of cool new things this morning. Standard and High CPU Linux/UNIX EC2 instances hourly prices in the US and Europe have dropped by 15% and will go into effect November 1st. 2 new types of EC2 instance is now available called “High-Memory”. High-Memory Instances are designed to be used with memory-intensive [...]

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Problem with Lilo Boot Loader

October 27th, 2009 · No Comments

Lately, we installed additional memory on our Debian (lenny) servers and installed ‘bigmem’ kernel for our 32-bit systems to recognize more than 3GB of ram. Bigmem kernel installations went fine on servers with Grub as their boot loader – most of them uses Grub. But on one machine with Lilo as boot loader, [...]

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