Amazon’s EBS (Elastic Block Store)

by Justin Leider on August 21, 2008

I wrote just yesterday about running your own hardware vs. using EC2 and RightScale and one of the major issues I found with EC2 was the lack of a persistent storage medium. Well, I knew the folks over at Amazon (…)

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Running your own hardware Vs. EC2 and RightScale

by Justin Leider on August 20, 2008

A couple weeks ago I began working with EC2 and RightScale in preparation of our big IT infrastructure change over. Ill start by giving a brief overview of our hardware infrastructure. Currently we’re running the CitySquares’ website on our own (…)

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Digging into HAProxy

by Justin Leider on August 13, 2008

Well its been a few weeks since my last posting here and there is certainly a good reason for that. Every once in a while I just need to completely unplug from technology. So it only made sense for me (…)

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