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Cloud-Computing: Marketing term for clustered resources

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How to reset connection pool in Azure (Error: max pool size was reached)?

I am getting the below error in my Azure website and am scrambling to fix it: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection from the pool. This may have occurred because all pooled connections were in use and max pool…
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Looking for software suite to delegate CPU intensive tasks onto EC2 on-demand instances

I am looking for a project which would simplify EC2 on-demand instance management for script execution. Here is my scenario. script waits for new job my script reads execution parameters it executes external python script for long-term…
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(Eucalyptus, KVM) Why we need to split a VM into kernel image, ramdisk image, and disk image?

I'm new in using cloud computing technologies. There is a popular cloud software called Eucalyptus. I found that the way to start a VM in Eucalyptus is very different from Virtualbox. In Virtualbox, we can create a virtual disk file, install any OS…
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Setup local EC2 style cloud?

I was recently given 3 dual opteron 2400 servers with 4GB of RAM and 120GB hard drives. I am interested in setting up something similar to Amazon's EC2 for my own personal web development use. Basically, I would like to spin up instances from an…
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How is cloud computing differrent from client-server architecture?

I want to know the difference between cloud computing and client server architecture. I mean how is cloud computing different from a website that provides me some services. And what is the meaning of elasticity in terms of cloud computing.
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Expandable cloud software?

Is there cloud software like Eucalyptus that will let you easily 'flip a switch' and start expanding onto EC2 as additional 'virtual' Eucalyptus(or whatever) nodes?
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Clustering on cloud/VPS providers

I'm wondering if anyone can give some clustering recommendations to me. I'm currently on Linode, which I'm impressed and happy with, but they (along with just about every other VPS provider I know of) don't allow broadcast/multicast addressing, only…
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AWS - Where should we store images, CSS and log files of the application?

Looking for a clarification and guidance on the best practice. Where should we store images, CSS and log files of the application? Application server or S3? We will be storing user related images and thumbnails on S3. We will not be using CloudFront…
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Should I persist images on EBS or S3?

I am migrating my Java,Tomcat, MySQL server to AWS EC2. I have already attached an EBS volume for storing MySQL data. In my web application, people may upload images, which I should persist. There are two alternatives in my mind: Save uploaded…
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Things I should look for/tread cautiously if I am moving to the cloud

What should I be looking out for when moving to a cloud like Rackspace? Another user at serverfault had issues like compute cycles (CC) exploding and I did not want to have the same experience.
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I need a relatively cheap host, which will be able to handle sudden peaks in traffic?

We're launching a product in a few months, which will obviously have a website. Judging from our current traffic, we believe that overall traffic will probably not be that much, but we are aiming at promoting the site heavily using social media.…
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Is it possible to Stop and Deallocate Azure VM from the VM itself?

I am trying to stop and Deallocate a linux Azure VM from the script that is running on the VM by sudo halt This terminates the session (ssh if interactive), stops the VM, but does not deallocate the resources. Is this somehow possible by e.g. some…
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Public IP address in Alibaba Cloud instance

Is it possible to assign public IP address to an instance in Alibaba Cloud that would be visible after running ifconfig And not assigned via NAT. Need this for provisioning K8s cluster and it doesn't work with NAT IP-addresses.
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Jenkins agents on GKE/GCE

I am using Jenkins to build my Angular applications on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). At some point I noticed that the builds on GKE take significantly longer than it used to take on my old (private) environment so I started to perform some tests.…
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DNS service outside hosting provider

I came to the conclusion that the DNS service at my hosting company is totally unreliable. But I don't want to change providers, because all their other services are great. In fact, it's a cloud server. There are companys that offer DNS services.…
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