Online storage of files, hosted by third party providers.
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Windows Azure Blob Storage Data Migration
I would like to back up the files I currently have in Azure Blob Storage and move them elsewhere. The problem is that pulling them one by one would take me several weeks, even within the same ...
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Ec2 instance down with error: cannot create temp file for here-document
Iam running my website built on ruby on rails in development mode on ec2 instance, when i ssh to that instance it says..
Welcome to Ubuntu 12.10 (GNU/Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64)
* ...
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What are the options for expanding the available storage on a VPS?
I have several virtual servers hosted at Linode, and I'm looking for a way to expand the available storage capacity. On some of those servers I'd need to have between 0.5 and 2 TB of space.
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Can Skydrive be linked to a server based home directory?
At the school I work at we currently give every user a mapped drive to their home folder on the file server, all controlled through Active Directory.
We also have a heap of users using iPads, which ...
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1answer
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Suggest CDN with Byte-Range requests support for streaming [closed]
I'm trying to find high load solution for streaming server.
The idea came to me this morning.
What about CDN or cloud storage with byte-range support. Basically flash player require only partial ...
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Google Cloud Storage Budget Limit [closed]
Does GCS allow you to specify a monthly budget limit such that, when the limit is reached successive requests are not served and I'm not charged with massive bills due to DDOS attacks or bots?
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Setting up a cloud “backup” system [closed]
So, here's my situation:
We have a file server here at the office that is used to store all of our documents, with nothing being stored on the local machines. Pretty standard, and for the most part, ...
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54 views
Perforce in the Cloud [closed]
I really like Perforce, and right now I'm using the free version for small companies. I have P4D running on my own server, but I rather would host in the cloud.
Where something makes automatically ...
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76 views
Is this a good backup strategy for a small VPS? [closed]
I have a VPS with Linode for hosting websites and I'm trying to come up with a good backup strategy. I don't want to use their backup service as it doesn't let you restore single files and someone ...
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1answer
159 views
Incremental backups from Rackspace Cloud Files to Amazon Glacier [closed]
Is there a software product/module (open-source or commercial) that can provide incremental backups from Rackspace Cloud Files to Amazon Glacier?
We are looking for something that will provide the ...
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1answer
61 views
How can I set up a load balancer to direct all Search Engine Bot traffic to one server?
We have a simple load balancer set up on Rackspace to 3 web server nodes. After reviewing our traffic and expenses, the largest bandwidth hog is Google Bot. Since on Rackspace we pay for bandwidth ...
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0answers
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AWS Storage Gateway without the “on-premises” part?
The use cases for the AWS Storage Gateway always seem to assume that the virtual storage gateway would be installed on-premises (i.e. local to the customer) and would then be synced to AWS. I am ...
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55 views
Tool to monitor change in data
Is there Windows a tool I can run on my servers to report how much of a change in data there is day to day on our servers/file shares? I'd like to determine if a cloud backup is feasible or if too ...
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2answers
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How to use “Instance Store Volumes” storage in Amazon EC2?
According to AWS I got 850 GB storage with the Medium EC2 server. But when i create an Amazon Linux AMI, I am unable to use the 850 GB provided.
While creating it does show in Storage Device ...
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2answers
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Mounting an Azure blob container in a Linux VM Role
I previously asked a question about this topic but now I prefer to rewrite it from scratch because I was very confused back then.
I currently have a Linux XS VM Role in Azure. I basically want to ...
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How to automate database backup of windows machines
I have a network containing 10 Windows workstations and 1 Windows 7 machine which acts as a server. I am planning to take a monthly backup of a folder called "MYFILES" which will be on all of the ...
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478 views
Sync/mirror directory with Rackspace Cloud files bucket
What tool can I use to synchronize the content of a local directory with that of a Rackspace Cloud Files bucket?
I need a rsync-like application to do a mirror, not a backup application. What I want ...
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1answer
222 views
How can upload my files in afast way to Rackspace Cloud files?
I have a lot of image files, and I want to upload all of them (about a million in a single directory) to RackSpace Cloud files in the fastest and most efficient way.
I'm using the python-cloudfiles ...
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1answer
88 views
Where to store social network photos and videos? [closed]
I have a social network with 100,000 users. I allow users to upload photos and videos now I feel like it is becoming too much for my dedicated server. Should I get another dedicated server? A content ...
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1answer
181 views
Eucalyptus Walrus Connection Problems
I'm beginning with Eucalyptus, with some S3 and EC2 background. I have an app for which I use a personal library to interface with S3 and store/retrieve files from there. Now I want to make my app ...
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1answer
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Minimum requirement for making single node cloud architecture [closed]
Hiee..
I do have only 2GB RAM 32 bit core2 duo intel processor @2.20 GHZ
is it possible for me to make (single node)cloud infrastructure using this configuration?
I need to make cloud ...
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2answers
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How to reset connection pool in Azure (Error: max pool size was reached)?
I am getting the below error in my Azure website and am scrambling to fix it:
Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection from the pool. This may have occurred ...
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projects or packages to emulate a tape drive with a Amazon S3 or OpenStack Swift compatible backend?
I've got some data that is being backed up to tape via bacula, and at some point soon I am going to need to migrate to non-tape storage.
Bacula supports to-disk archiving, but it occurred to me that ...
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1answer
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Strategy to take cloud (amazon aws) backups
I need to take different type of backups(code backup, database backup, user uploaded files backup) from amazon instances, I need to make sure this backups are running properly and if any backup fails ...
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2answers
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cloud hosted sync with free file system integration
I'm currently using wuala for remote storage / sync, and while I dislike their GUI greatly (and their poor support for headless systems), they have one amazing feature where a virtual disk (windows) ...
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1answer
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UEC store error
I installed UEC with the help of this manual.
And and I had not any problems until I tried to enter the section Store in Web-interface. At this point, get error messages:
Error 60: server certificate ...
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2answers
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Alternative S3 for in-house use? [closed]
We have a project for which S3 is a perfect fit, but for some customers we need to run everything in house. Ideally, we'd run something such that little or none of the code needs to change; can ...
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2answers
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Consolidating storage on multiple VPS instances
Say you have four VPS instances running. One is an nginx proxy which handles requests for your two middle layers VPS instances running a web app via FastCGI and the final VPS is running the database.
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S3-compatible Object Storage systems
Has anyone come across a near 100% Amazon S3 RESTful API compatible object storage system?
What I am after is a layer that sit on top of any (preferably a POSIX) filesystem that provides Amazon S3 ...
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1answer
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Cheap distributed hosting - will it improve service reliability?
I'm developing a quite popular mobile application which needs to download some amount of data at first run (then check availability of new data periodically). Currently I'm using shared hosting at ...
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3answers
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“Cloud” file storage Vs. Self-Managed Servers (What's the big deal with cloud?)
So I'm just going to jump right in to the maths; My web host offers a server with 5x2TB drives, unmetered 1GB/s connection and can provision servers in 5 different data-centers, for ~$200/month.
If I ...
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4answers
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Eucalyptus / no bootable EBS yet - any alternatives to Eucalyptus?
I've read a couple of articles that Eucalyptus doesn't support bootable EBS yet. This is a problem since you can't make a backup form an instance like you a able on Amazon cloud or Rack Space Cloud.
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Cloud storage vs traditional storage [closed]
I'm trying to understand the hype around cloud computing and whether it could be a better alternative to a traditional data center in terms of costs. I can see the benefits of cloud if you are a small ...
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1answer
225 views
Swapping a EC2 EBS instance to be backed by local storage
I have a windows 2008 Amazon EC2 instance which is EBS backed. Both the root device (C:) and the EBS volume I have as the secondary drive (D:) are EBS volumes.
I would like to migrate this instance ...
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2answers
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Best option for storage clustering
I'm working on an application that requires a large amount of storage space and I want to handle storage 'in-house' (Much cheaper than, say, S3) so we will have multiple servers (Initially 4) with ...
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1answer
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What is the best way to utilize storage space on multiple (cloud) servers?
I have access to multiple cloud servers (all linux based) - the only problem is that they are somewhat limited on their storage capacity (around 50-100GB). The server just provide storage for actively ...
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Full-featured online backup providers for medium-sized enterprise? [closed]
I've been banging my head against the wall trying to find an online backup service that supports all of the following enterprisey features:
Full-system backup for Linux and Windows 2003/2008 ...
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2answers
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How to create my own CDN (or private cloud)
I would like to create a cdn-like storage system, where my clients can upload/download files (average 300-400MB video files, divx files upto 2 GB) and even stream videos from them.. And i got ...
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1answer
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In UEC, created volume appears, disappears, why?
I've installed UEC and got it up and running but when I create a volume and attach it to an instance it appears and disappears. and in my instance I can't seem to see it using sudo fdisk -l
thanks in ...
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CSS Files not getting updated on Cloudfront
Been having this problem with my website not displaying updated CSS files.
The last time I had this problem, I ended up erasing my S3 bucket and CloudFront distribution, and re-creating the whole ...
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2answers
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Is more than a virtual dedicated server needed initially for a user-generated video sharing site?
I'm building a hybrid flash and HTML5 user-generated video site. I'm a novice but have some more knowledgeable developers helping me. I've bought a virtual dedicated server with 30 GB of disk space ...
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3answers
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High usage media server performance question + Backup solution
I have a fairly busy media related website which allows my users to stream / download large MP3 files (50-200Mb), at busy periods I have around 250+ concurrent streams / downloads. I have over 500GB ...
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1answer
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Trouble attaching more than 6 EBS volumes to EC2 instance
I'm using chef to create RAID10 arrays.
Last friday morning (10/22) I was able to create arrays with 9 EBS volumes on dev/sdz1-9 with no problems
I started having trouble attaching more than 6 EBS ...
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2answers
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What are the alternatives to MozyPro for server-level file system off site backups?
Due to problems with getting support, we are currently looking to move away from using MozyPro to backup our Windows servers (150 GB~ of file shares and various development tools for our team of ...
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1answer
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Cloud based file share
I normally wouldn't ask such a general question here. But I just started my own company and suddenly found myself in need of a team based file sharing solution. My developers and designers work all ...
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1answer
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what cloud platform should I use for my rails app?
I was reviewing the platforms
Heroku = I am a beginner but heroku hides a lot of details i want to learn. so i dont want to user heroku
Linode
Amazon EC2
which is one better. I dont want to ...
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Is using cloud files worth it? (Or any cdn?)
A little about my website:
The front page needs to load fast, and it has a background image
The website is an online store with lots of product images
How much would it help alleviate the server of ...
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1answer
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Rackspace CloudFiles and JungleDisk performance vs The Planet CloudStorage
I am considering using either Rackspace CloudFiles with JungleDisk or The Planet's CloudStorage for a webapp that needs fast read performance to serve very large video files.
The application uses ...
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Confused about cloud hosting? Cloud server… 3 Dedicated or 1 Cloud? Which is the way to go?
I've finished programming an entire social network to replace an old one with already 60,000 users, (well after 6 years),but it has 100-300 users on-line at some times. I was going to start putting ...
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Any cloud storage service that lets us to authenticate the file when we serve the file to our visitors
Lets say, i want to restrict a file to my visitors. I mean , i have an xx.avi file to be streamed/downloaded, and the visitor paid me for the bandwidth and the size of the file.
In amazon s3, i cant ...
