The instance I run this blog was slightly impacted a few days ago. All of a sudden I could not ssh into the instance and the Apache was running really painfully slow. It did not really work at all. While I was already fantasizing that my really super awesome new web-2.0-youtube-facebook-twitter crossbreed vKaiser.com had gotten [...]
I’ve been neglecting the blog for a while and feel sorry about that. The spring has been busy and will most likely stay like that, some bachelor parties and weddings and I am also going to be a dad in the beginning of June! The boy is already kicking strong!
But I also have some [...]
We have a lottery draw every Saturday. It’s quite traditional in Finland and people are really active in playing it. Last week we had about 6.9 million Euros for the lucky person getting all seven numbers right. Finns played the game for a total of over 18 million Euros which was the new record. So [...]
Today I realized you have to be really careful on how the Amazon instances are assigned if you are using reserved instances. I did the math and figured out that buying a reserved instance will probably be ideal for me since I rarely need to scale, other than the few times I might be testing how [...]
On Sunday I got my virtual server running in Amazon EC2 and it has been happily runnning there since. I have done some homework and know not to rely on Amazon keeping the instance running forever. I should expect it to fail. At the beginning this felt suspicious… I should expect the server to fail? [...]
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