[pageview url=”http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/10/new-modify-instance-type-of-ec2-reserved-instance.html”] This will definitely make a lot of people very happy.
Sync data to S3 with a crontab job.. any linux
In previous post I showed you how easy it is to use S3 as a mounted volume in Ubuntu. But sometimes you just want to sync content of a folder to a bucket in S3.. Here are the steps to
Mount Amazon S3 storage as local filesystem on Ubuntu server
This is probably not best way to “sync” a folder.. but it does the job. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install build-essential libfuse-dev fuse-utils libcurl4-openssl-dev libxml2-dev mime-support wget http://s3fs.googlecode.com/files/s3fs-1.61.tar.gz tar xzvf s3fs-1.61.tar.gz cd s3fs-1.61/ sudo ./configure sudo make sudo make
Illegal numbers? This video is very interesting.
Imagine if numbers could be illegal..
AWS cloud ping and latency check..
I want to share a great link I use for checking cloud latency. http://www.cloudping.info/
Installing Plex Media Server on Ubuntu
Plex is probably best invention after sliced bread.. Its simple enough to install it on basically any appliance or os. Here is the short description of how to install Plex on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon vi /etc/apt/sources.list add
Installing drupal with commons on Ubuntu
This has basically been killing me the last few days, so here I share my experience to save you some time. Please follow these steps sudo tasksel install lamp-server (type down the password for your mysql installation) sudo apt-get
Find out the size of a directory in linux
Sometimes you might want to find out what is eating all space in a certain drive. One way is to do a find for files larger than a specific size: Syntax for RedHat / CentOS / Fedora Linux find {/path/to/directory/} -type
Add a swap to EC2 micro instance!
Those 640MB RAM in a micro instance will not get you far.. but sometimes for the sake of testing – you might want to enable swap. Here is a fast how to create a swap as a file.. sudo
Migrating a HDD to a smaller SSD disk (Ubuntu) or any other flavour
From time to time, you get to the point that you might have to migrate your root/boot disk to another disk – sometimes a smaller disk even. There are many ways of doing this. I recently found out that