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GPU (Specifically NVidia) Cloud Computing Centres

In the CPU computing world, you have giant cloud providers like Microsoft Azure, Amazon EC2 and Rackspace. You have also smaller companies that provide dedicated hosting services. Amazon EC2 has limited support for GPU computing with Tesla,…
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When to move from a shared hostig?

I currently run a website on a shared hosted solution. It runs OK but recently I got downtimes and I started to think about moving. At a point I'm getting 2000 unique visitors and about 25K page views per month. How can I know when to move to…
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Configure wildcard domain on Cloudbees

I am trying to add a wildcard domain alias for a CloudBees RUN@Cloud application. However I get the following error message: invalid hostname: *.domain.com
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Best way to move one VPS from one provider to another?

I have a VPS server (Xen based) purchased from one provider, now I want to move the server to another (kvm based) What are the best way to do so? I really don't want to re-install the whole system, do the configurations again.. While I can afford…
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Scalable Web Hosting?

I have a website that receives heavy seasonal traffic. For much of the year, typical shared web hosting is adequate; however, the process of upgrading to VPS or dedicated hosting (when traffic gets too heavy) is quite arduous with my current…
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What's the difference between scaling memory and scaling instances in cloud hosting?

I've been playing around with a free account on appfog.com and this question came to mind. What's the difference between scaling memory and scaling instances? For example, what is the real world performance and reliability difference between these…
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Recommend cloud options for linux VM instance?

I'm the teaching assistant for a CS class in the spring and wanted to investigate low cost cloud options for hosting smallish footprint (512 MB or 1 GB ram) linux instances that students can telnet into. Ideally it would support remote desktop…
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Easiest way to scale php and mysql website

I have read many info about optimizing websites (varnish, caching...) All these look quite complex. I wonder if cloud hosting can help me. Are there automatic scaling solutions ? Simplicity is the keyword for me.
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EC2 save configurations and PHP files

I'm about to start using AWS for the first time. From what I understood, when you terminate an instance or start a new one, all the data is lost. For user data I understand you are supposed to use cloud storage such as S3. That's ok. Now what…
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Calculating Cloud Service Costs

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my capacity planning? I would like to scale a web application to the Cloud and wanted to know if anyone had any experience calculating costs and could tell me how I would go about that. I have NO…
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In cloud environment is it better to get two separate instance for mysql and php-app or get one large instance

We are using cloud environment for our web-apps, i need an expert opinion on hosting our applications. our application built on php & mysql, i want to know which is the most efficient and/or cost effective way to get instances. case 1: get 1 large…
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Does either Rackspace or AWS provide APIs for billing information?

By billing, I mean real-time usage and consumption statistics - the API for which can be used to generate custom reports, forecast expenditure, etc. I see that AWS has the facility to generate custom reports pertaining to usage that they export as a…
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Can my company benefit from cloud computing?

I have read Wikipedia articles, etc., but I have a small engineering firm. We're a machine vision integrator. For some reason, it was suggested that if we offered a "cloud" -- whatever that is -- that we'd be one of a kind and it'd help our…
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European cloud hosting provider

I'm trying to find a good european cloud hosting provider. For legal reasons we can not host our service in the US or with an american company operating in the European union (rackspace). All we want is a couple of linux machines that we can manage…
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Is Amazon EC2 ready for real-world disk-access-heavy webapp hosting with HTTPS balancer?

Load balancing with HTTPS We have apache/java/php web application that has HTTPS sessions and we want to move to Amazon EC2 with Elastic Load balancer. But we've been reading on stackoverflow that various features of HTTPS are not supported by…
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