Setting Up Sites on EC2 with RightScaleThe key to a successful site setup on Amazon EC2 are scalability and redundancy. RightScale makes this easy by providing ServerTemplates and multi-server deployments. To get started, let’s take … September 12, 2007 Flexera
Recompiling Kernel Modules for EC2 InstancesSome time ago, I discovered that the version of the kernel that Amazon uses for its current infrastructure (linux 2.6.16) contains a bug in the lvm modules. This was a bummer to see since we are using LVM snapshotting facilities to realize sub-second database backups. The bug was only triggered under specific load conditions, but when we’re talking database backups nobody likes getting kernel panics at the most inappropriate times.The interesting… August 7, 2007 Flexera
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