Comments on: from ServerBeach to Amazon AWS/EC2

By: ayn

ayn — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:56:52 +0000

Hi Mikayel,

Glad you found my post, I’ve been using mon.itor.us for years and it works well. I got the email from you guys about the cloud/ec2 monitoring and will definitely look into that.

By: Mikayel

Mikayel — Mon, 18 May 2009 08:13:01 +0000

I will also suggest http://www.monitis.com for monitoring your EC2 instances

By: marc

marc — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:24:20 +0000

@ayn:
thanks for your reply, but the symlinks will be gone, too when the instance is stopped and restarted…also the installed system software/upgrades.
am i still missing something?

By: ayn

ayn — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:25:08 +0000

You can symlink the files or directories you want to be on EBS to the EBS volume. For example, I have /mnt/ebs/etc/apache, /mnt/ebs/etc/ssl, etc. You can also backup the directory sturcture to S3.

By: marc

marc — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:24:52 +0000

There is one step which i am still not getting about this ec2 / ebs stuff.
With a simple webapp, iâ€™ll have some log, the webapp itself (maybe rails, maybe php), and my database

so iâ€™d probably setup maybe 2 ebs volumes (webapp+logs and database).
then iâ€™d copy my database and webapp to the volumes, create symlinks (or change the config), tweak the config of my instance, upload my ssl keys for the webserver and so onâ€¦.

butâ€¦ when i stop/restart my instance i have persitance logs, webapp and databaseâ€¦ but still my whole config is gone, my ssl keys are gone, my installed services are goneâ€¦ shouldnâ€™t there be a way to store the main volume itself on ebs or am i missing something?

looking forward for clarification

By: ar-lock

ar-lock — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:35:30 +0000

Is server beach xen-virtualization?

Just to say that you would have to install the xen-kernal first, then make an ami.

and then hope theres no debugging to do.

By: David Beckwith

David Beckwith — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:26:51 +0000

Awesome post. This was exactly what I was looking for. You seem to be doing everything the best possible way. Great job. And thanks for the tips!

By: ayn

ayn — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:38:43 +0000

Yes I could, but I was also moving from Sarge to Ubuntu, that was one of the reasons for the migration, I had to update the old server to something more modern (it was still running a 2.4 kernel)…

By: Vitor Domingos

Vitor Domingos — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:34:44 +0000

… or, you could install ec2 tools and “bundle-vol” the whole (old) system to an EC2 AMI and then boot it.

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