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Amazon EC2 Performance Drops – Too Many Users

Riyad Kalla — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:53:05 +0000

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 [...]

Slicehost Review – Excellent VPS Hosting Experience

Riyad Kalla — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:02:58 +0000

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 [...]

Using Apache Virtual Hosts and ProxyPass Together

Riyad Kalla — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:00:39 +0000

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 [...]