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deusx : Automate EC2 Instance Setup with user-data Scripts - Alestic.com - "The Ubuntu and Debian EC2 images published on http://alestic.com allow you to send in a startup script using the EC2 user-data parameter when you run a new instance. This functionality is useful for automating the installation and configuration of s
Simon Willison : Automate EC2 Instance Setup with user-data Scripts - Automate EC2 Instance Setup with user-data Scripts. I knew about EC2’s user-data feature—what I didn’t know is that the Alestic and Canonical images are configured so that if the user-data starts with #! the instance will automatically execute it [via]
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deusx : Public Open Source Services / FrontPage - "You use the same Google Merchant account that App Engine debits as the one that accepts donations. This way no bank account is involved. Then you track the money that goes into the account (using the Google Merchant IPN equivalent). Then you look at
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nelson : Grendel: cloud data protection - Wesabe is giving away their innovative technology for protecting data stored on a server. Data is stored encrypted, only decrypted in memory when the user is logged in
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bmilleare : Chef - Opscode - Infrastructure automation for the masses.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Realtime charts of EC2 spot prices - Realtime charts of EC2 spot prices: it was just a matter of time
nelson : EC2 spot prices - Graph of Amazon pricing
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nelson : EC2 CPU open for bid - Great idea: put unused EC2 power up for auction. Dying to see where the price settles
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deusx : Shell script for automated Amazon EC2 personal proxy server « Sprayfly - "Amazon EC2 Instances currently cost $0.10 USD per hour to run plus bandwidth charges (which for standard web browsing will be negligent). This gives Amazon EC2 the potential to be an incredibly cheap on-demand proxy server. Finally you only pay for
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bmilleare : CloudCrowd - If Carlsberg made worker/job queue servers...
Simon Willison : cloud-crowd - cloud-crowd. New parallel processing worker/job queue system with a strikingly elegant architecture. The central server is an HTTP server that manages job requests, which are farmed out to a number of node HTTP servers which fork off worker processes to
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philgyford : BackupMyTweets Home: Backup Your Twitter Account - I suppose backing one bit of the cloud up to another unaccountable, third-party bit of it is better than nothing, but...
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bmilleare : Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage - 67 terabyte 4U servers for $7,867 = Awesome.
Jeremy Zawodny : Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage - Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage: that totally kicks ass... needs ZFS though. :-)
nelson : Backblaze disk pods - Great article about how to build large, cheap systems
Simon Willison : Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage - Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage. Explains how Backblaze can operate an unlimited backup service for five dollars a month—their custom storage hardware stores 67 terabytes for $7,867.
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philgyford : Deathwatch - Archiveteam - "a central indicator of websites and networks that are shutting down, or to serve as an indicator of what happened to particular sites that shut down quickly." (via Haddock)
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nelson : Doug Cutting to Cloudera - Doug's one of the smartest systems engineers out there
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joshua : libcloud python library - a unified interface cloud server providers
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9 month ago
nelson : Google App Engine adds a task queue - Now you can do work on Google's cluster without having to be an HTTP request handler
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Andy Baio : Jason Scott's progress update on mirroring Geocities - in 48 hours, Archive Team's already saved over 200,000 Geocities sites
nelson : Archiving Geocities - Notes from the team spidering Geocities before it's shut down
philgyford : ASCII by Jason Scott / Geocities: Lessons So Far - Not just for the good stuff about archiving Geocities, but also about the history of the site and its structure. (via Waxy)
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Andy Baio : Filefront closes with only five days' notice - Jason Scott notes it's 48 terabytes of user-contributed data, gone
philgyford : Video Game Downloads on FileFront - Another site wiping oodles (apparently 48 terabytes) of user-generated/uploaded content. The "cloud" is the future you know. (via Waxy)
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joshua : Mosso: The Hosting Cloud » Blog Archive » Breaking News: Mosso | The Rackspace Cloud Announces Availability of Cloud Servers and More
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Linkorama : Coghead%u2019s demise highlights PaaS lock-out risk - We still don’t have the standards to do this simply (although a lot of progress has been made since the turn of the century) but at least a well-documented application created according to these guidelines is far easier to recreate on a new platform tha
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philgyford : Jacobian's jellyroll at master - GitHub - "You keep personal data in all sorts of places on the internets. Jellyroll brings them together onto your own site." Sounds good, but haven't tried it. (via Blech)
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philgyford : Husk.org. chaff. Aggregation and the Edge. - "Is there a space for a piece of user-installable software, like Movable Type or Wordpress, that aggregates their data from sites across the web, and then presents it as a site?" Yes. Maybe even a WordPress plugin...?
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philgyford : Adactio: Journal—Magnoliloss - On backing up his Magnolia links and wondering how to back up the rest of his distributed online life. (via Blech)
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joshua : SQL Data Services (SDS) - microsoft's cloud database.
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deusx : Eucalyptus - "Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems - is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing "cloud computing" on clusters. The current interface to EUCALYPTUS is compatible with Amazon�
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deusx : twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml - If you're locked out of Twitter, try checking out this API method with HTTP Basic Auth using your Twitter credentials. It reports on limit, remaining hits to limit, and time until reset. I'm locked out, and it reports my remaining hits at 0 wi
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