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Open Source Network Monitoring Primarily for Linux Cloud Environment

How are you currently monitoring your Linux network in the cloud? We run several (read 7) CentOS instances that host several websites as-well-as a couple of MySQL instances. I am trying to find an open source (or extremely affordable closed-source)…
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How to download the saved images in the Rackspace cloud server?

I wonder if someone know how could I download the saved server image in a Rackspace cloud server. I have been searching and nothing found even in the Rackspace knowledge base. I know it is stored in the file system, but where exactly is it? If I…
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OpenNebula: Can't create a host - Could not resolve hostname

I'm having trouble launching a host in Open nebula. Is is because I can't merge the front end with hosts i.e start off with one server and build from there. Do I have to start with 3 or 4 servers? My error log when I try to create a host: Fri Mar …
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Amazon Web Services viable for OpenGL driven app?

Our company currently has an openGL/directX powered app for viewing 3D models. Some of our customers have expressed an interest in a cloud based solution that would allow their users of devices with limited resources to view very large models which…
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Amazon EC2 and EBS

This is a follow up question to this post, as I'm trying to get my head wrapped around all these cloud hosting services: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/32273/scaling-a-cloud-based-ecommerce-site I had stumbled upon a blog and…
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Method to transfer/move a Virtual farm from one host to another

I have a Virtual farm that consists of 1 DC 1 SQL Server 2 W2K8 7 W7 systems. We are now looking to move that from the current solution (which is a physical host) to a cloud based solution. Can I just transfer the VM files? Is there a…
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Load balancing across application servers

This is more a question of theory in order to help me as a developer understand the process our sysadmins are going to use in app deployment to distribute our app. I'd really appreciate some insight, as it would help me plan for possible eventual…
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Setting up multiple web servers - Cloud

Our site traffic has grown large enough that we need to implement two web servers. We've signed up for the RackSpace cloud and we're wanting to move our eCommerce platform accross. We're running Magento. Basically I have a few issues. I'm in the…
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What is the best way to compare the performance of different servers?

I've got a site with a LAMP stack and I'm looking at moving to a new hosting provider (currently on a dedicated server and looking to move to a cloud provider). What is the best/most reliable way to compare performance of my site on the different…
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Python equivalent to Heroku

Is there a Heroku or Engine Yard equivalent for Python?
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Simple 2 node virtualisation cluster

Could someone recommend an opensource virtualisation cluster suite?! I'm looking at setting up a 2-3 node cluster w/ 2 webservers 2 mysql and a virtualised loadbalancer for apache. We currently have this setup on 5 dedicated servers and wish to…
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Why cloud when you can get 16 Core Shared CPU VPS?

I'm wondering why would people choose to go for cloud with budget about $50 a month for only about 1-2 cores of CPU power.. I am currently 16 Cores Shared CPU VPS with 512MB of memory. I'm thinking to upgrade to cloud, but it seems not worth it for…
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How should I host a site that could potentially get a short spike in traffic of 1000%+

This is a purely theoretical question, but what if I had a site that would normally only get a couple thousand hits a day, but for a few days each month that could shoot to several hundred thousand or even several million hits over the period of 1-3…
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Cloud hosting vs Dedicated vs VPS :: disk IO

I am disappointed with the unreliable disk I/O in VPS (no matter what the virtualization and cpu/ram specs, shared disk often becomes a bottleneck). Can someone tell me whether the disk in cloud hosting is shared? For example, if I go for Amazon…
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knife server create- finding lists of flavors

I'm new to Chef and I think I'm missing something in reading the docs. I want to create servers using knife server create (options) but can't seem to find fully complete documentation on the options. Specifically, how do I find a mapping of server…
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