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Bundling an Amazon EC2 instance with cPanel : HowTo

Saturday, April 17th, 2010 | Posted in Cloud computing

In this Article we will explain how to bundle an instance which already has cPanel installed in it. The only thing you need to consider is cPanel licensing as cPanel provides license for the Elastic IP address. The article assumes that cPanel is licensed to an Elastic IP and the IP is still with us so that it can be reassigned to the new instance once its launched.

Why should we bundle a cPanel EC2  instance:

Many times we have seen issues like instances becoming unresponsive or not reachable by SSH etc. In such cases if we have a an AMI bundled and ready to start, we can go live in less than 5 minutes. We could save our clients by launching the AMIs with cPanel in couple of instances where the EC2 instances became unresponsive. Read more…

Postgresql on EC2

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 | Posted in Amazon EC2, Cloud computing

If you are looking forward to migrating your PostgreSQL database to AWS EC2 cloud servers, you can do so by following the simple steps we have posted below. You can make it more reliable and secure from accidental  EC2 instance crashing by allowing the postgresql server to run from an EBS volume. You can also take  a snapshot of the EBS volume which will be stored on AWS storage service s3 which will  make it highly reliable by making it available on multiple AWS availability zones that spans across datacenters. Read more…

Quick start with Elastic Load Balancer (ELB ) on EC2

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 | Posted in Cloud computing

Elastic Load Balancing ( ELB ) is an AWS load balancer service that is readily available for users who have signed up for AWS EC2 and s3 services . ELB is configured to automatically distribute incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances . Recently AWS has announced support for ELB to the AWS Management Console which will give users a simple, point-and-click web interface to create and configure load balancers for the AWS EC2 instances .

Below are the simple steps to configure ELB for webserver from the command line . Read more…

Amazon EC2 Boot From EBS

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 | Posted in Cloud computing

Amazon EC2 has  announced the ability to boot instances directly from Amazon EBS snapshots, providing significantly increased flexibility on how customers can manage their instances.Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) can now either be stored in Amazon S3 or as an Amazon EBS  snapshot. Read more…

Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances

Friday, March 13th, 2009 | Posted in Cloud computing

Amazon announced reserved instances and this is expected to give momentum to on demand or auto scaling architectures. Amazon also offers a reduced pricing for the reserved EC2 instances. There are 1 year to 3 year model pricing models and after making this one time payment hourly rates are reduced to $0.03 from $0.1 in the case of standard, small on demand instances. More information on pricing is here

It looks like Amazon will have to have announce data transfer rates along with computing time to pass on the real benefit of reserved instances to the end user.

IBM application servers on AWS

Friday, February 13th, 2009 | Posted in Cloud computing

IBM and Amazon announced that they have teamed up to provide cloud computing solutions. With the announced now Amazon will be able to provide IBMs application servers in their cloud computing environment. Amazon is already proving Microsoft Winodws AMIs in their EC2 instances. With the solutions like IBM DB2, Informix, Webshephere flavours and Lotus Web content management solution both IBM and Amazon has strengthened their offerings in cloud computing offerings. Time will tell what Gogrid & Google AppEngine has in store to compete with AWS

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