Figuring out how this stuff works

Posted on March 15, 2007
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One of my sites, Digital Podcast, is suffering because it’s overloading the shared server its on and is getting rate limited.

So, I need to move to a dedicated server. I want it to be an AWS EC2 server, so I can play in this new world and scale away.

I have my own box now, but I came across a service called AWS-Console.com where I can set up and test servers on EC2 using a shared EC2 account. At first, I thought this was great - but then, there was no way to connect to my s3 account for backups and I have no way of saving and relaunching my Amazon Machine Image.

Then, I found s3dfs which is based on fuse and lets me mount my s3 onto my instance as part of the file system. OK, time to give it a try I thought.

I have set up and terminated endless sessions now - each time a learning experience, but a lot of hours gone. Figuring out linux, aws-console, ec2, s3 etc has been a bear.

But, I think I am finally getting the hang of it. So, I am going to put up some test web sites soon. I will try to document the server set up as a recipe.

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