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Cloud-Computing: Marketing term for clustered resources

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Why is it not possible to go into BIOS on a cloud server?

I am trialling cloudsigma, and they claim to use a KVM Hypervisor. I have a trial server, but cannot boot it from BIOS. Is this the case with all cloud servers? The company claims I can run Hyper-V or ESX, but I would not be able to without going…
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Install cPanel on Rackspace Cloud servers

I'm on Rackspace cloud servers, and I'm trying to install cPanel It went through the whole process and its telling me that I need to change my hostname to a fully qualified domain name I tried setting the hostname to some random domains to see if…
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How to measure cloud incoming and outgoing bandwidth?

I am renting a Rackspace cloud instance now and I want to measure the incoming and outgoing bandwidth. When a normal request comes for a page - what is the bandwidth consumed and when a normal page is delivered to the browser from the server…
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Best Server Hosting Technology for unscaled code

Ok so i changed my question to make it more clear. If I have a social networking site with 1000 users online at the same time what would be a better solution. A dedicated server with one box? or a cluster virtual dedicated server on a cluster?…
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Cloud Computing IaaS Tools

I would like to know which other tools can help me to set up a private cloud infrastructure but still allow me to connect with services like Amazon EC2 or S3. The ones I know about are: Nimbus Open QRM OpenNebula Eucalyptus
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what cloud platform should I use for my rails app?

I was reviewing the platforms Heroku = I am a beginner but heroku hides a lot of details i want to learn. so i dont want to user heroku Linode Amazon EC2 which is one better. I dont want to spend more than $50 per month on this. Just testing and…
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Scaling horizontally

I know next to nothing about having more than one server work together. Right now I've been playing around with the cloud servers offering from rackspace. All the time when people talk about these types of "cloud" servers, they make it sound like…
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Paying for cloud server when its powered off?

I am intending to use cloud computer for my test lab. As this will required 4-5 hrs of daily testing, I am looking for a cloud server provider charges at reduced rate (or not at all) if my machines are off. Can anyone please advice me few names…
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Commands to install Apache, Mysql and PHP through ssh

I am not an advanced user. I have hired a machine in cloud and I am accessing it through Putty. How do I install a LAMP stack on it ? I tried using LAMPP (XAMPP) from Apache friends but it dies saying it supports only 32 bit library. Can someone…
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Print to local home network based printer from cloud server?

I'd like to be able to send a print command to a local network label printer from a web application running on a cloud server. I've already asked how to do this via code on Stackoverflow here, but I would like to know if this is possible from a…
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Cloud Inventory Software

I'm looking for a solution that I would be able to install on a VPS server that would connect to my other VPS servers via SSH (or through a daemon) to check configuration, run scripts, or shutdown/reboot servers (boot up would be nice, but that's…
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UEC for grid or parallel computing?

-Can I use the cloud to do "Grid computing"? what I need is parallel computing where I do some rendering and would like it to do some heavier calculations for matlab. To combined the computing power of some or all computers in to "one task" if it is…
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Confused about cloud hosting? Cloud server... 3 Dedicated or 1 Cloud? Which is the way to go?

I've finished programming an entire social network to replace an old one with already 60,000 users, (well after 6 years),but it has 100-300 users on-line at some times. I was going to start putting different concerns on different dedicated servers.…
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Static IP on a cloud computing/hosting provider?

I know Amazon's EC2 does NOT allow true static IP allocation to the virtual machine instances, but i'm wondering if any of the other cloud hosting providers do? I'm trying to find out if Rackspace does, but havent been able to find anything…
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What services offer the equivalent functionality of Rackspace Cloud Sites (ASP .NET/MVC/SQL Server specifically)?

I'm basically looking for auto-scaling front ends (MS MVC/ASP.NET) and DB (SQL Server). Today, we are using Rackspace (formerly Mosso) for this, but I'm not very pleased with the performance we are seeing and they don't seem to be improving the…
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