I’m sure almost everyone is aware at this point on the failure that caused Amazon cloud computing solution AWS to be down yesterday (and still is at some smaller extend happening at this time as we can see on their status page) for most of the day. This has affected a few big (Reddit, Foursquare, [...]
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
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 – [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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