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Solutions for a growing Postgresql database on Amazon EC2?

I've been doing a lot of research into scaling issues on Amazon EC2, especially growing databases. I looked into how I can make the database more solid and sound (I use PostgreSQL). Many sources say ...
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How can I store the Postgresql data on the EBS Volumes and not on the Root Volume?

My PostgreSQL database is currently stored in the cloud. Normally, when creating a PostgreSQL database, all the data is stored on the root volume of the EC2 instance. How can I make sure all the ...
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How does data storage on Amazon EC2 work especially for databases?

I've been playing around with Amazon's Web Services for over a year now, however I don't quite understand how it works. When I for example select an AMI of my choice from the EC2 console and I ...
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postgres updated from 9.1 to 9.2, required database update fails

On going from postgres 9.1 to 9.2, it says that the data bases need to be upgraded so on giving the upgrade command I give and get the following $ sudo service postgresql upgrade Stopping postgresql ...
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How to monitor a remote Postgresql Amazon EC2 database through Munin?

How can I monitor a remote postgresql database on Amazon EC2 using Munin? I would like to graph the number of reads, writes, and total database operations.
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Native Postgresql 9.2 Streaming Replication

I'm trying to build up native postgresql 9.2 streaming replication in the Amazon cloud. According to documentation, I've set up everything correctly - but at the slave I get these logs: 2013-02-04 ...
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security group not allowing connection to postgres ec2 aws

Hey im having some trouble allow remote connections to postgres from other ec2 instances using the named security group feature to rules. I have set the listens directive in postgres.conf to "*" and ...
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How to set up postgresql on EC2 so my data will be backed up and safe?

I am in the process of setting up a very small web-app that I hope to eventually grow into something larger. For now it is a near-zero-budget personal project so I don't have a lot of resources to ...
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How to load balance when database and application running on same instance in Amazon EC2

I have the situation where I am running my application and Postgresql database on same Ec2 instance. Data of Postgresql gets saved on another EBS Volume different from the Root volume of the instance. ...
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Amazon ELB and use of address / server names across multiple servers

I am setting up Nginx servers behind the ELB. I set up so that api.app.com points to an ELB. I wonder which addresses I should use for remote connections, Nginx settings etc.. 1) For example, in ...
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How can I make an AMI mount the same volume when it initializes?

This is for a database (Postgre) VM, whose data is stored on a separate EBS volume. Can I make it so that the same EBS volume is mounted automatically (this is assuming that no other instance is using ...
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Are there measurable benefits to running XFS on EC2

I am looking at creating a PostgreSQL database image (to run on Amazon EC2) and I have heard good things about XFS. However, since ultimately you are running in a VM, the gain of XFS on EC2 might ...
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How to upgrade PostgreSQL on EC2?

I have an Amazon EC2 instance running PostgreSQL 9.1. I am pointing to the RedHat repo for PostgreSQL. Now that 9.2 is out, how do I upgrade? This is new to me.
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Connecting to a Postgres EC2 database

I am trying to connect to a database hosted on AMAZON EC2: ec2-xx-xx-xxx-xxx.xxxx-1.amazonaws.com/companyName I have been given the user and password for this. What is the best way to connect to a ...
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Restart the process if it reaches 100% [closed]

I have amazon ec2 ubuntu server instance.I am running my python -django application with postgres database.It is medium instance.also I have the big datas in my db Daily My instance reaching 100% cpu ...
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Web server (IIS) and database mirroring (Postgresql)

Recently our web-server crashed and we had to recover everything from a backup which took the whole day(totally unacceptable in our business). So my question is, how can I create a complete mirror ...
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backing up postgres on ec2

Ok, I'm quite new to this server administration stuff. I have set up an ec2 instance running my website. I'm running everything on a single machine - node.js & postgres. What is the best way to ...
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Configure BIND with database backend and DLZ support

Decided to move my windows based DNS servers to linux. The problem is I need to be able to dynamically update zone files without having to restart bind. It seems the most popular solution is to ...
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Compiled PostgreSQL 9.0.2 on Amazon EC2 has no service or startup script

I built postgresql on EC2 and it is running fine. However, I have been manually controlling it from 'pg_ctl start/stop' as there seems to have been no service configured or evident way to configure ...
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PostgreSQL EC2 Backup Strategy

I'm trying to determine the best approach to backing up a PostgreSQL database on Amazon EC2. I've read about a couple of options. 1) Take a daily snapshot of the EBS volume your database is using. ...
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PostgreSQL 9.0 and PHP on Amazon EC2

How can I enable PostgreSQL 9.0 support in PHP on my Amazon EC2 instance? I'm running the free 32 bit Linux Micro instance. I've installed PostgreSQL 9.0 by following these instructions ...
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amazon ec2 beanstalk trying to connect to postgres, unknowns ips

I have a beanstalk server that is trying to connect to a postgres db running on a ec2 machine. The ips are unknown as they always change. What kind of security should I allow for the db? Normally you ...
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how do I install scripts like pg_lsclusters on a Amazon AWS Linux AMI

I am used to debian/ubuntu distros and now trying to experiment with the official Amazon AWS Linux AMI. I have installed postgresql-server, postgresql-devel, postgresql-contrib yum packages. The ...
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Linux freezes every few seconds

We're having an issue where one our Linux boxes (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, running on EC2 with a quadruple-large size, 68GB of RAM and 8 virtual cores with 3.25GHz each) freezes up every few seconds. Typing ...
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Postgres suddenly slower and higher CPU usage

We're running a Postgres DB that's about 38GB, hosted on a 68GB EC2 instance. It's been humming along, with load at ~0.7 (on an 8 core machine) and little CPU usage until about 16 hours ago, when CPU ...
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Amazon Auto Scaling + Elastic Load Balancer + Web Application

Let's say I have web application that runs on a single EC2 instance (PHP + PostgreSQL). Now I create Load Balancer and set Auto Scaling. The question is: how do I replicate database on the fly when ...
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Diagnosing/logging possible connection permission problem in Postgresql

I've got a J2EE application (Tomcat) which uses Postgresql as the database. This app works fine in development but is failing when I try it on my staging environment. I suspect I've got some kind of ...