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Cloud-Computing: Marketing term for clustered resources

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Why do cloud providers calculate per hour? Who turns off their servers anyway?

I'm not tech/unix/sysadmin ignorant, but i still can't understand why Amazon, Rackspace, Azure, GoGrid, Linode and these guys calculate their instances per hour used... I have to ask... Who on earth turns off their servers? *aaS started as a…
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EC2: maximum shutdown time exceeded

Is there a maximum shutdown for instances in Amazon EC2? And is that maximum configurable via the EC2-API? We transfer data at shutdown time from the instance to S3. This works great for small files. But if they get bigger (several GB) we experience…
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Ec2 Denial of Service: Securing cloud based website from DOS attack

How can I prep up my website infrastructure running on an EC2 instance against DOS attacks? I run apache with nginx as reverse proxy
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Cheap 'n' easy AIX hosting services?

I'm working on a product that's written in generic, cross-platform-friendly Java. However, this Java component plugs into a natively-compiled, platform-specific third-party SDK. A potential customer runs AIX, so I need to create an AIX distribution…
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How to Architect a system on AWS for scaling (with a MySQL back-end)

I'm trying to understand how to architect an Amazon Web Services application. As I understand it, the whole point of using something like AWS is to make the eventual scaling easier, so I'm trying to understand how to do that. I have an instance,…
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Setting a price cap for AWS Free Tier

I'd like to setup a website on the Amazon AWS free tier but I'd like to be sure I won't lose any money if I see a sudden spike in traffic. Is there any way to set a cap on traffic or stop the server after a certain level of cost is reached? Thanks.
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Are there any hosts that use openstack?

http://www.openstack.org/ I'm looking for a good cloud hosting company with utility style costs (paying for how much bandwidth, hard disk, cpu is used.
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How to backup IIS 6.0 Configuration to work across different Servers?

Ok. Cloud Computing is the new kid in the block. And Our company is getting into it really quickly. Not so much for the price benefit, but for the process management perspective. I am in the process of moving an IIS 6.0 server running in Windows…
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High CPU performance on a cloud hosting platform

We need a cloud hosting platform that provides high CPU throughput for a very specific high-CPU utilization application we have. Can anyone recommend a cloud hosting platform whose virtual instances that actually performs well for such an…
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Co-location vs. cloud hosting

We have a decent-sized server estate: several ProLiants, plus IBM BladeCentre and SANs running a VMWare environment. Due to an imminent premises move, we're not going to have enough space for a server room, so I've been looking at moving everything…
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What are the functionalities of Distributed File systems and Distributed Storage Systems?

i'm reading cloud vendors solutions for the distributed storage systems such as Amazon Dynamo and Google Big Table. and really confused in two terms : what is Distrubuted file systems, Do cloud vendors use different kinds of DFS ? what is…
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Custom Windows AMI for Amazon EC2

I am new to the Amazon EC2 services and I am planning to host a Windows based vm on Amazon. I have lot of fuzziness about AMIs on Amazon. So my first question would be, am I be able to install softwares and frameworks(e.g. Silverlight, .NET, etc) on…
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Multicast in Rackspace cloud

On Amazon EC2, I cannot use multicast, but how about rackspace cloud? It would be very beneficial to be able to use multicast as most clustering protocols rely on it...
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How can I confirm a server instance I have access to truly has provided specifications?

I rented 4 server instances from my friends data center for an extremely cheap price. As advertised, each instance should hold Intel CPUs with 4x cores at 2.6GHz clock frequency each, 8GB of RAM, and 50GB of SATA Drive Memory. He provided access to…
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How to choose size for a cloud server (rackspace)

We're going to test the rackspace cloud next week to see how it's working with our web app. It's a LAMP environment with a lot of MySQL databases. How do I choose the "right" server size? On Rackspace I can choose slices with the memory of 256,…
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