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Cloud-Computing: Marketing term for clustered resources

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Amazon EC2 bandwidth charges in case of unwanted incoming traffic(ddos/flood)?

What happens if my EC2 instance gets ddosed/flooded, which could potentially go up to tens of gigabytes an hour(and even more) of undesired incoming traffic, will i be charged for this traffic? My guess is yes, but what can i do in such nightmare…
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Windows desktop (XP, Vista or Win7) EC2 AMI for QA testing

I need to perform QA testing for Windows based applications on a Windows desktop client and I would like to know if EC2 supports Windows images that are NOT server based (e.g. Server 2003). I have searched and found many posts that suggest that…
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What's the easiest way to back up EC2 instances automatically?

I'm worried I might log in one day and my fully configured instance has been removed. I would like to be able to back it up daily to S3 but frustratingly this is not a simple setting in the console. Is there a simple managed solution that can take…
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How to configure IIS wildcards for account subdomains (like Basecamp)?

In effect I'm working on a SaaS application where I want to give subscribers their own subdomain to access their information (in code I will be pulling the first part of the subdomain for use as their account name), similar to how Basecamp et all…
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CentOS 7 Generic Cloud login?

I have an OpenStack cloud and added the CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud-1503 image and it boots just fine, but I do not know how to login. What is the root password? How can I set it? Is there some other account I need to use? Thanks
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What Makes Cloud Storage (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, google Apps) different from Traditional Data center storage networking (SAN and NAS)?

Some confusion because of my question so to make it simple : "What kind of storage do big cloud providers use and why?" As far as i understand, however I am not able to find any kind of official Storage networking differences between typical data…
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What is Load Balancer Warmup?

What exactly is the process of warming up a load balancer? How does it help before a huge load process? How is it different from Simply upscaling a cluster behind the LB beforehand. Do CSPs do something special when we make a pre-warmup request? GCP…
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Migrating resources between different Azure subscriptions

I have a few questions for the Azure gurus out there. I work for a software development house and I have been asked with coming up with our Azure infrastructure. The idea I had is to set up three Pay-As-You-Go subcriptions for the following…
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Instance's deployment / post configuration for AWS Elastic Beanstalk

I am using AWS Elastic Beanstalk, it is easy to start with deploying Java based web app, which is great. However, I want to install Memcached on every instance locally so they can be used for caching, but seems it validated the principle of Elastic…
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Getting rid of your server in a small business environment

In a small business environment, is it still necessary to have a central server? Speaking for my own company (a small charity with about 12 employees) we use our server (Windows Server 2003) for the following: Email via Microsoft Exchange Central…
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amazon cloud vs rackspace cloud

I'm looking to take a dedicated server - in the process I read about Amazon Cloud computing & Rackspace Cloud Servers. Now I'm not sure which one to opt? Could somebody suggest - Performance & Price wise. Regards
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Multiple servers vs 1 big server performance

My team of developers has suggested a server structure for an upcoming project we are developing. Our structure is "logical", meaning that the various logical components of the application (it is a distributed one) relies on different servers. Some…
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I accidentaly enabled the UFW on my Google Cloud Computer

I accidentally enabled the UFW on my Google Cloud Compute debian instance and unfortunately port 22 is blocked now. I've tried every way to go inside the VM but I can't. I'm trying to access through the serial port but it's asking me for user and…
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Are Rackspace's Cloud Servers really cloud hosting?

I may be confused about what cloud hosting really is... I asked Rackspace how its Cloud Server (CS) 256MB/10GB compares to Slicehost's 256slice VPS, and they said it's exactly the same (only different billing and BW). I know they are the same…
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Cloud infrastructure for home and personal experimentation?

As with many techies-- I've accumulated a number of older x86 servers, x86 desktops, and Cisco switches over the last few years. I'd like to build a small cloud cluster for web app experiments (web server + database + application server). That is,…
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