Fubaredness Is Contagious

Lack of persistent disk out of the box and IP addresses that are not preserved between reboots are indeed the 2 primary issues that make hosting public web sites on Amazon EC2 “tricky” (even though not impossible).
Instead of addressing the problem head on, have you considered multisourcing your infrastructure? Let Amazon EC2 host your [...]

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If you maintain a VBulletin installation and spam bots are causing trouble, these two links are a must read: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=211647 and http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=205214

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Please feel free to take Elastic Server On Demand (ESOD) Self-Guided Tour and check out exciting capabilities that our product has to offer, including intuitive visual interface to assemble your custom application stacks and tools to transform them into a Virtual Machine image. Note that server management web GUI and package upgrade functionality are built [...]

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Update: Commercial counterpart of VcubeV is called VPN-Cubed, it’s being developed by my employer CohesiveFT. VPN-Cubed is a vastly superior product, which eliminates various limitations of VcubeV and introduces new functionality. Check it out at http://cohesiveft.com/vpncubed.
This week on Elastic Server blog we announced the official name of the technology that I described in my article [...]

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Big snowfall in Chicagoland today. I would like to praise all companies (mine included) who encourage workers not to come in to the office today and work from home instead, and who actually have infrastructure in place that allows workers to be as productive as they could be in the office.

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