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Archive for March, 2010

Root Partition Size Limitation for EC2 Instances on AWS Cloud

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 | Posted in Cloud computing

Eventhough  AWS is a great cloud computing service , it does have it’s own disadvantages . We are not going to discuss all of  them here but we will look into  one of them  .  If you have launched   EC2 instances  from Amazon Machine Images  ( AMI ) , you might have  seen that the size of the root partition ( / ) is only  10GB  for all  the instances . So to test if  we can have more than 10GB for  root partition ,  we tried  the following Read more…

How to configure Memcached on AWS EC2: A Starter’s Guide

Saturday, March 20th, 2010 | Posted in Cloud computing

Memached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load and session management. Lets focus on session management first and build up a caching daemon to store PHP sessions in a load balanced environment.  In this post I will explain how you can easily install it and make it available in LAMP. Read more…