Tag Archives: AWS

Top reasons Amazon EC2 instances disappear

Posted on February 2, 2008 by

(Judging by the posting gap, the author of this blog almost disappeared too! Time to lift the head from the day-to-day scramble and write the next entry!) The fact that Amazon says up-front that computers fail seems to be the … Continue reading →

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Deploying many Rails sites onto Amazon EC2

Posted on October 1, 2007 by

One of our customers is deploying many Rails sites onto EC2, more precisely, many instances of virtually the same site. Basically they have a Rails application and they tweak it for each individual site they set-up. EC2 is a wonderful … Continue reading →

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RightImages changelog

Posted on September 26, 2007 by

We are currently maintaining CentOS and Fedora Core RightImages. The motivation for these images and the way we build them automatically using a script is described in our RightScripts rationale blog entry. The short version is that we keep the … Continue reading →

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Setting up site on EC2 with RightScale

Posted on September 11, 2007 by

The key to a successful site setup on Amazon EC2 is scalability and redundancy. RightScale makes this easy by providing server templates and multi-server deployments. To get started, let’s take the simplest case: a single server set-up. We have a … Continue reading →

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The 10-minute EC2 server

Posted on September 11, 2007 by

The new Rails All-In-One server template we just made public makes it really easy to get your own Rails application running on Amazon EC2. And it’s all free to boot! The server template is a collection of RightScripts that install … Continue reading →

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Amazon EC2 changes how MySQL is used

Posted on September 9, 2007 by

Amazon EC2 will change the way MySQL is used: it suddenly opens a whole slew of new possibilities. What’s really exciting is that it can also simplify the management of MySQL which enables powerful automation as provided in the [RightScale … Continue reading →

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Redundant MySQL set-up for Amazon EC2

Posted on August 20, 2007 by

In order to deploy web sites/services onto Amazon EC2 everyone needs the same components, and so we’re building them! One of the most requested and most critical pieces is a good database set-up, and mysql is clearly the highest in … Continue reading →

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