Archive for February, 2009

How to create an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud EC2 Machine Image (AMI)

(UPDATED: 05/31/2010)

This how to article will go over creating a Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Machine Image (AMI) from scratch. In this particular example we are creating a Centos 5.3 64bit AMI from beginning to end. For those that are interested in taking advantage of cloud computing, hopefully you find this blog article helpful. Note this blog also can be generalized for Centos 5, 5.1, 5.2 most versions of Redhat, and Fedora 64bit and 32bit.

First thing is first you are going to need to sign up for an Amazon Web Services account specifically S3 Storage and EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud here. You will need a credit card and some basic info, and will immediately get the following info: [...]

Posted on Saturday, February 14th, 2009 in Cloud Computing | 63 Comments »

Some Tuning Tips For Apache Mod_Cache (mod_disk_cache)

So this blog was quite delayed in the writing like months, but better late then never. I was tasked awhile back with creating a caching cluster serving cached API requests and during my research I selected Apache Mod_Cache and below were some things I learned tuning it along the way.
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Posted on Monday, February 9th, 2009 in Systems 101 | 10 Comments »