Comments on: from ServerBeach to Amazon AWS/EC2 http://blog.andrewng.com/2008/11/25/from-serverbeach-to-amazon-awsec2/ saving your inboxes by posting the useless stuff here Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:07:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: ayn http://blog.andrewng.com/2008/11/25/from-serverbeach-to-amazon-awsec2/comment-page-1/#comment-25825 ayn Thu, 21 May 2009 17:56:52 +0000 http://blog.andrewng.com/2008/11/25/from-serverbeach-to-amazon-awsec2/#comment-25825 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. 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 http://blog.andrewng.com/2008/11/25/from-serverbeach-to-amazon-awsec2/comment-page-1/#comment-25818 Mikayel Mon, 18 May 2009 08:13:01 +0000 http://blog.andrewng.com/2008/11/25/from-serverbeach-to-amazon-awsec2/#comment-25818 I will also suggest http://www.monitis.com for monitoring your EC2 instances I will also suggest http://www.monitis.com for monitoring your EC2 instances

]]> By: marc http://blog.andrewng.com/2008/11/25/from-serverbeach-to-amazon-awsec2/comment-page-1/#comment-25742 marc Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:24:20 +0000 http://blog.andrewng.com/2008/11/25/from-serverbeach-to-amazon-awsec2/#comment-25742 @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? @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 http://blog.andrewng.com/2008/11/25/from-serverbeach-to-amazon-awsec2/comment-page-1/#comment-25740 ayn Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:25:08 +0000 http://blog.andrewng.com/2008/11/25/from-serverbeach-to-amazon-awsec2/#comment-25740 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. 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 http://blog.andrewng.com/2008/11/25/from-serverbeach-to-amazon-awsec2/comment-page-1/#comment-25739 marc Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:24:52 +0000 http://blog.andrewng.com/2008/11/25/from-serverbeach-to-amazon-awsec2/#comment-25739 There is one step which i am still not getting about this ec2 / ebs stuff. With a simple webapp, i’ll have some log, the webapp itself (maybe rails, maybe php), and my database so i’d probably setup maybe 2 ebs volumes (webapp+logs and database). then i’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 on…. but… when i stop/restart my instance i have persitance logs, webapp and database… but still my whole config is gone, my ssl keys are gone, my installed services are gone… shouldn’t there be a way to store the main volume itself on ebs or am i missing something? looking forward for clarification There is one step which i am still not getting about this ec2 / ebs stuff.
With a simple webapp, i’ll have some log, the webapp itself (maybe rails, maybe php), and my database

so i’d probably setup maybe 2 ebs volumes (webapp+logs and database).
then i’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 on….

but… when i stop/restart my instance i have persitance logs, webapp and database… but still my whole config is gone, my ssl keys are gone, my installed services are gone… shouldn’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 http://blog.andrewng.com/2008/11/25/from-serverbeach-to-amazon-awsec2/comment-page-1/#comment-25691 ar-lock Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:35:30 +0000 http://blog.andrewng.com/2008/11/25/from-serverbeach-to-amazon-awsec2/#comment-25691 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. 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 http://blog.andrewng.com/2008/11/25/from-serverbeach-to-amazon-awsec2/comment-page-1/#comment-25685 David Beckwith Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:26:51 +0000 http://blog.andrewng.com/2008/11/25/from-serverbeach-to-amazon-awsec2/#comment-25685 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! 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 http://blog.andrewng.com/2008/11/25/from-serverbeach-to-amazon-awsec2/comment-page-1/#comment-25665 ayn Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:38:43 +0000 http://blog.andrewng.com/2008/11/25/from-serverbeach-to-amazon-awsec2/#comment-25665 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)... 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 http://blog.andrewng.com/2008/11/25/from-serverbeach-to-amazon-awsec2/comment-page-1/#comment-25664 Vitor Domingos Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:34:44 +0000 http://blog.andrewng.com/2008/11/25/from-serverbeach-to-amazon-awsec2/#comment-25664 ... or, you could install ec2 tools and "bundle-vol" the whole (old) system to an EC2 AMI and then boot it. //VD … 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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