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 [...]
The site went down today for a few hours and the worst thing is, it was sort of my own fault. The last time I was playing with booting from Amazon EBS I must have made a mistake when detaching volumes from the (wrong) instances. Thus, the incident was caused by the EBS volume not [...]
Amazon has announced a new feature of booting instances from EBS volume. This feature changes radically the way how AWS instances can be preserved if compared to the traditional volume bundling and uploading to S3.
Though this all sounds nice, it isn’t really too easy to convert existing instaces to boot from EBS. All previous instances [...]
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