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Google will start pushing for a faster web next year, and there have been several rumors in the SEO and marketing world that google will add page speed to its SEO rankings algorithm.  Yesterday they have announced that  Google will offer a free DNS service.
First off, this is great.  It should improve the speed of [...]

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This is my second activity on using AWS – this time the use of EBS.
Objectives:

Format a new EBS (10GB) and mount it on a running instance of private AMI (created on first activity – add link/ref to old post)
Setup a MySQL server with the datastore on EBS partition
Setup the partition(EBS) to start [...]

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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 files.
I based my [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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MySQL conference notes on cloud computing shoot out text summary atranscript
Lew Tucker, Cloud CTO, sun
Monty Taylor, MySQL Drissel Geek, Sun
Jeremy Zawodny, MySQL hacker, craigslist
Chander Kant, CEO, Zmanda
Thorsten von Ficon, CTO, Rightscale
Prashant Malik, Cassandra Dude, Facebook
Mike Culver, Evangerlist, Amazon Web Services
Some interesting subjects touched upon were:
elasticity – allowing even a small company to shoot for the [...]

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Last week I was on a conference call with some potential client when one of the senior business people said: “And then we could use cloud computing or something, to get this application in the hands of everyone”.  
That’s when I thought – wow – this term really has penetrated into the mainstream.  Cloud Computing [...]

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For those of you who have heard all the hype about cloud computing but haven’t dug your hands into it yet there is a company offering free trials of cloud servers: http://www.rightscale.com/products/free_edition.php. They offer 10 hours of playing around with cloud servers on Amazon EC2 which amounts to a whopping $1 value but the good [...]

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During our weekly sysadmin call this morning several of our experienced sysadmins quickly pointed out that clients seeking very high up time should not necessarily look for it on the cloud.  I couldn’t believe it, but almost as an omen, this story came on my RSS feed from Webware:  Google apologizes for email outage
Outages pose [...]

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Mark Shuttleworth announced last Friday that Ubuntu 9.10 will be named Karmic Koala, and also presented what we should expect from the future version of Ubuntu:

the desktop version will have a new look (more beautiful)
on the server side as everybody these days Ubuntu’s future will be targeting the “cloud”. They will have official supported [...]

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