I have an EC2 instance with "instance store" device as a root device. Now, I would like to attach an EBS volume to that same instance, only that I want it to be the root device. Is that possible? What happens to the instance store device in such case? Thanks in advance ...
Yeah, this is exactly what I'm wondering about - I understand the big picture and have done my homework on Cloud Computing, but Cloud Hosting, is something I've never heard before. Sure, I understand the concept, but how does it work behind the scenes? How do you enable it? How do you setup? ...
libcloud is a standard client library for many popular cloud providers, written in python: http://incubator.apache.org/libcloud/ ...
Looking for something between simply downloading struts and bolting on vs full-fledged portal software such as Liferay or BEA Portal. Would be great if the database connectivity supported EAV models but allowed developers to think in traditional relational 3NF terms. ...
Note: if you are familiar with the Azure pricing model, just jump to the "question" section. Microsoft will begin to charge for the use of the Azure platform starting February 1, 2010. The monthly bill will be a function of bandwidth, storage, and others. Among the factors used to calculate the bill is compute time. This latter factor, ...
Hi All, Since last week my compute cycles (CC) went through the roof (Rackspace Cloud Sites). Normally I stay under the 10,000 cycles per month . Now this month I already have more than 75,000 compute cycles. I don't have more visitors and I did not change anything in the code. I looked in the raw log files, that didn't help either... ...
We want to offer cloud storage services as part of a portal and want to meter the usage of each user and bill them for that usage. Basic features needed are: Meter actual usage per user account (and either provide invoice per user or allow easy API tools to pull such data into our reporting/billing program) Backup management Synch fil...
Hope my question does not pose as too wide. So I try to frame my question not to get too similar answers to the question of this question. Currently I have deploy my rails application on Linode. The service works fine, the price is reasonable. But there are those administering works time to time. I could live without those. Recently I s...
I would like to deploy a private cloud using Ubuntu Server 9.10. There is a -sparc iso available here. My question is if any of the cloud packages included in 9.10 will work on sparc hardware? A search for sparc on the Eucalyptus forums yields no results. I realize that "commodity hardware" usually means x86 but sparc boxes are what ...
I am working on an application that creates video files and stores them in a folder in the C:\ drive. I speculate that there will be a large number of these files in the future and we would run out of disk space at some point of time (on our VPS). When the time comes that we have to upgrade, we either plan to use one of the Cloud provide...
Hi! I'm working on an intranet website based on OpenCMS and I'd like to include a tag cloud to the site. I've found some opensource tagcloud java libraries (like OpenCloud). Do you have any experience with wiring those two (or other tagcloud libraries+OpenCMS) together? ...
I have an EC2 instance with "instance store" device as a root device (I did not know the difference between it and EBS before launching it). I would like to stop it but I can not do it with the command ec2-stop-instances, the output is: Client.UnsupportedOperation: The instance 'i-XXXXXXXX' does not have an 'ebs' root device type and ca...
I was reading and hearing some stuff about cloud computing and map-reduce techniques lately. I am thinking of playing around with some algorithms to get practical experience in that field and see what is possible right now. Here is what I want to do: I would like to use some public cloud platform (e.g. Google App Engine, Google Map Redu...
I've looked at the Introductory Special Offer, but you still need to provide a credit card because when you go over your limits, you do have to pay. Man, I'm just a developer and I would like to try some things out with Azure Cloud. How can you evaluate a product if you can't try it out... Is there a way to get a sort of developer trial?...
What are approaches to test custom clients for public web services? Today there are many online services which provide an API. There is a boom of little apps using those APIs. Examples: desktop/mobile clients for social networks and blogging platforms, document storage and processing centers, cloud databases, real-time data streams, GIS...
Hi, What options are there for saving and retrieving documents to and from the cloud, from within Emacs? I use Emacs at work, on a Windows machine, and at home, on a Linux box, so ideally I would want a solution that works more or less out of the box for both operating systems. I touched on g-client, but could not quite get it to work...
Since there are 1500+ questions for google-app-engine, I was wondering: what are people actually using it for? are they doing something for their companies or startups? are they just playing around with it because "the cloud is cool"? are they using it because it's the "java free hosting"? (answers from actual GAE users are preferabl...
The Situation I am creating a video training site for a client on the RackSpace Cloud using the traditional LAMP stack (RackSpace's cloud has both Windows and LAMP stacks). The videos and other media files I'm serving on this site need to be protected as my client charges money for access to them. There is no DRM or funny business like ...
On Ubuntu 9.10 using PVM 3.4.5-12 (the PVM package when you use apt-get) The program terminates after adding a host. laptop> pvm pvm> add bowtie-slave add bowtie-slave terminated laptop> Current Configuration only $PVM_RSH = bin/usr/ssh I can ssh perfectly fine into the slave without a password, and run commands on it. Any ideas? T...
Hi, I've a university project in which I should find and implement a proper development topic for Azure. In Azure there are Web Roles and Worker Roles and I would like to find something, that burdens relatively big load on both roles. (web role is for serving the users by webpages, worker roles are for background processing data that w...