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Debian Lenny 5.0.3 updated
The Debian project just announced the third update for its stable distribution “lenny” 5.0.3. Those installing regular updates from security.debian.org will notice just a few new updates (base-files for the version change to 5.0.3, heartbeat, per...
Amazon Introduces Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)
Amazon just announced the limited beta of Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), a secure and seamless bridge between existing IT infrastructures and the AWS cloud. Amazon VPC enables us to connect our existing infrastructure to a set of isolated...
Review of “Learning Nagios 3.0″ by Wojciech Kocjan
I’ve just finished reading “Learning Nagios 3.0″ by Wojciech Kocjan and published by Packt Publishing, and this is a great book for anyone interested in nagios. This is a beginner level book that introduces nagios to new users intereste...
Using instance-specific metadata in Eucalyptus
One of the great features of Amazon EC2 is the possibility to dynamically query and use instance specific metadata, or even custom data. This can be useful for various reasons, and the greatest advantage I’ve personally seen into this, is the p...
Running s3sync in parallel
s3sync is a great tool to synchronize local data with Amazon S3 for backups, or whatever other reasons you might want to put your data on S3. It is very simple to install (gem install s3sync) and use (s3sync -v -s -r –progress <source_dir&#...
Using Varnish in front of your Amazon S3 static content
Many startups these days are using Amazon S3 to serve directly their static assets. S3 is being used as a simple CDN instead of more professional (and expensive) solutions (including Amazon’s own CloudFront) because it is very simple and cheap ...
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