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How can I set up FreeBSD on a linode VPS?

How do I setup a linode to run FreeBSD? There is an example for NetBSD and references to successful attempts at getting FreeBSD to run but no actual document I can find. ...

exim4 nonstandard ports

I am trying to use exim4 on debian to relay mail, nothing more. I have a stage mail server and a production mail server (both written custom in python to do weird stuff). I also have all these running on a single linode host. production mail is on port 2500, stage mail is running on port 2501. I'd like exim to relay mail based on th...

Linode or Slicehost

I'm looking into VPS for LAMP and wanted to see if any of you have an opinion to help me decide between Linode and Slicehost? Pro, Cons and overall opinion will be much appreciated. ...

What projects have a similar aim to the libcloud project, and how mature are they?

libcloud is a standard client library for many popular cloud providers, written in python: http://incubator.apache.org/libcloud/ ...

Are there any "gotchas" in deploying a Cassandra cluster to a set of Linode VPS instances?

I am learning about the Apache Cassandra database [sic]. Does anyone have any good/bad experiences with deploying Cassandra to less than dedicated hardware like the offerings of Linode or Slicehost? I think Cassandra would be a great way to scale a web service easily to meet read/write/request load... just add another Linode running...

What do I need to configure to host django applications on linode?

Hi, I am about to choose hosting provider for my Django project. I took a look on a linode and it looks very promissing. It looks like very elastic solution but in my case this might be a disadvnatage since I'm not so experienced in servers configuration (alternative provider for me has great tools to quickly do the job, but linode has ...

Is there a linode version of EC2 on Rails?

We really like the idea of hosting with Amazon EC2 and the excellent EC2 on Rails, but our cashflow isn't enough to justify a move to EC2. So we've decided to host with linode. Now we're trying to put together the best Rails server build. For those that don't know, EC2 on Rails is an opinionated Ubuntu Linux Server image for Amazon's E...

Connection refused: When I try to send email from my linode server

I have a django project and for email settings I use my personal gmail account. It works just fine when Im testing from localhost. But i get "conection refused error" from django when I try from my linode vps. Any ideas ? ...

Feasability of running MongoDB on Linode 512 VPS?

I've read the MongoDB documentation, and it comes with a warning about 32-bit systems; particularly that they're capped at 2 GB of available RAM for Mongo. So I was wondering if that statement meant anything in regards in running MongoDB in a low memory setting like Linode's 512mb of RAM based VPS. I doubt it matters but with a 64-bit ...

Default risks of losing data on a single MongoDB server

My particular scenario: I want to spin up a new Linode VM solo for running MongoDB. I'll have backup services and etc. for everything related to the disk, so this question about 'risk' pertains only to the following. I've been reading the MongoDB documentation and I've gotten to the fsync portion. It mentions that data in memory is writ...

How to deploy a [Ruby on Rails] site in a scalable way?

I have been working on my [first] startup for a month now, and while it's probably atleast one more month away from an alpha release, I want to know how to deploy it the right way. The site will have an initial high amount of load (network + CPU) for a new user, so I am thinking of having a separate server/queue for this initial process,...