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I’ve just finished another article for Linux Magazine on good server design for the cloud.
Cloud computing is amazing, everyone is talking about it and it will take over the world. One day it will actually be possible to use …

As you can’t point the root of a domain to an EC2 load balancer yet, we’ve decided to have a small Apache instance with an elastic ip attached to it and have it proxy all the incoming traffic to …

Scalr.net is a very good service when it comes to hosting in the cloud, but it does have its little annoyances.
One of them is that you can’t access parameters passed to instances, as bash variables, and considering it has …