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Amazon EC2 Performance Drops – Too Many Users

by Riyad Kalla on 14. Jan, 2010 in Technology

Alan Williamson recently wrote about his companies long-term (multi-year) experience with Amazon EC2 and sums up the degrading experience as:
Again, great services just as long as you don’t use them too much!
Alan clarified that they started deploying on EC2 about 2 years ago, initially using the “SMALL” instances for most DB instances and Web front-ends [...]

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Slicehost Review – Excellent VPS Hosting Experience

by Riyad Kalla on 10. Jan, 2010 in Technology

We are currently in the process of building out a farm of upgradeable virtual servers that will comprise Break it Down blog and the rest of The Buzz Media’s blog network. RimuHosting has been a top-tier host for 3 years now for our member sites, but the beauty of RimuHosting and it’s well-deserved reputation as having some [...]

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Using Apache Virtual Hosts and ProxyPass Together

by Riyad Kalla on 23. Jul, 2008 in Technology

I recently ran into a situation where I had a server with Apache on it that was already hosting a few PHP sites using VirtualHost mappings, but I now wanted to add a new Tomcat-hosted site to the same machine.
In a way, what I wanted was to setup a new VirtualHost entry on Apache to [...]

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