Questions tagged [cloud-computing]
Cloud-Computing: Marketing term for clustered resources
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General questions about Windows on Amazon EC2
I have some general Qs on my mind about Windows on EC2:
Don't Windows servers normally have a key/license written somewhere into them, in which case can I not extract this (legitimate) license using ...
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How to cap bandwidth usage on AWS EC2?
I'm planning to use AWS EC2 for my web application and I need control over the bandwidth usage (don't want the instances to be compromised and ramping up bandwidth cost crazily). There are many ...
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Paying for cloud server when its powered off?
I am intending to use cloud computer for my test lab. As this will required 4-5 hrs of daily testing, I am looking for a cloud server provider charges at reduced rate (or not at all) if my machines ...
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Are there any hosts that use openstack? [closed]
http://www.openstack.org/
I'm looking for a good cloud hosting company with utility style costs (paying for how much bandwidth, hard disk, cpu is used.
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Commands to install Apache, Mysql and PHP through ssh
I am not an advanced user. I have hired a machine in cloud and I am accessing it through Putty.
How do I install a LAMP stack on it ? I tried using LAMPP (XAMPP) from Apache friends but it dies ...
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Print to local home network based printer from cloud server? [closed]
I'd like to be able to send a print command to a local network label printer from a web application running on a cloud server.
I've already asked how to do this via code on Stackoverflow here, but I ...
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Server Virtualization
Is it a good Idea to install two or more virtual operating systems performing the same task on a single server instead of only one?
If these virtual operating systems make a cloud, can they respond ...
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Cloud Inventory Software
I'm looking for a solution that I would be able to install on a VPS server that would connect to my other VPS servers via SSH (or through a daemon) to check configuration, run scripts, or shutdown/...
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UEC for grid or parallel computing?
-Can I use the cloud to do "Grid computing"? what I need is parallel computing where I do some rendering and would like it to do some heavier calculations for matlab. To combined the computing power ...
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What's the easiest way to back up EC2 instances automatically?
I'm worried I might log in one day and my fully configured instance has been removed. I would like to be able to back it up daily to S3 but frustratingly this is not a simple setting in the console.
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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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Windows 7 or Windows Vista in the cloud
Hi I am looking for a cloud-based solution that offers Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP to be served in the cloud using VNC or a similar remote desktop. Does such an offering exist?
Is there ...
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High CPU performance on a cloud hosting platform
We need a cloud hosting platform that provides high CPU throughput for a very specific high-CPU utilization application we have. Can anyone recommend a cloud hosting platform whose virtual instances ...
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Static IP on a cloud computing/hosting provider? [closed]
I know Amazon's EC2 does NOT allow true static IP allocation to the virtual machine instances, but i'm wondering if any of the other cloud hosting providers do? I'm trying to find out if Rackspace ...
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What is Ubuntu enterprise cloud?
If I install Ubuntu 10.04 Server, will it provide me with virtual machines which I can use to install different OSes? I need Debian Lenny on a VM for example. What facilities does it provide? Is it a ...
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What services offer the equivalent functionality of Rackspace Cloud Sites (ASP .NET/MVC/SQL Server specifically)?
I'm basically looking for auto-scaling front ends (MS MVC/ASP.NET) and DB (SQL Server). Today, we are using Rackspace (formerly Mosso) for this, but I'm not very pleased with the performance we are ...
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What is a private or public cloud? [closed]
I'm looking into cloud hosting and came across the terms private cloud and public cloud. Are they the same as shared hosting vs. vps/dedicated hosting?
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What is the maximum number of rails instances a single 256 MB RAM rackspace cloud server can support?
I know it is a vague and ambiguous question.
I want to know just out of curiosity. How many instances of a rails app can I host on server with 256 MB RAM [Cheapest option on Rackspace]?
Assumptions ...
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Clustering on cloud/VPS providers
I'm wondering if anyone can give some clustering recommendations to me. I'm currently on Linode, which I'm impressed and happy with, but they (along with just about every other VPS provider I know of) ...
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What is the best solution for Windows in the cloud? [closed]
Best can be cheapest or most up to date. I'm more interested in cheapest.
Thanks!
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Getting rid of your server in a small business environment
In a small business environment, is it still necessary to have a central server?
Speaking for my own company (a small charity with about 12 employees) we use our server (Windows Server 2003) for the ...
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which server is best for me?
I am looking for a best hosting service for my website. My website is a PHP MySQl driven site which hase got site scrapping for more than 10 websites and near about 8-10 API pursing and some about 150 ...
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I need a few minutes of dedicated server a week, but not for hosting, just to convert ogg etc [closed]
I'm completely happy with my webhosting, it's just that I need to do one little thing they won't allow, and that's run an instance of Sox to convert about 30 mp3s to ogg files, in various directories, ...
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Hosting solution for batch processing of data (LAMP)
I've created an app that goes out and fetches data and then processes it in batches, triggered via cron jobs. The app has no web front end, it just stores data in a DB to which I connect from my ...
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looking for a cloud operating system to install on my own hardware
is there something like that?
I've been told that IBM has one (IBM cloud burst)
anybody knows ?
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How secure is cloud computing?
By secure, I don't mean the machines itself and access to it from the network. I mean, and I suppose this could be applied to any kind of hosting service, when you put all your intellectual property ...
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Co-location vs. cloud hosting
We have a decent-sized server estate: several ProLiants, plus IBM BladeCentre and SANs running a VMWare environment. Due to an imminent premises move, we're not going to have enough space for a ...
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How do I make a Windows virtual machine replicate to another datacenter/cloud?
We have a Windows 2008 VM running IIS and SQL Server Express (it's an all-in-one web application). We need to have another copy at our secondary datacenter site.
What is the best way to do this? It ...
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How to use LVM on Rackspace Cloud
I am trying to set up a simple but effective solution to make a backup of my rackspace cloud servers. These servers each run subversion, trac, and some database-backed custom php applications.
My ...
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Choosing a monitoring system for a dynamically scaling environment: Nagios v. Zabbix [closed]
When operating in the cloud and scaling boxes automatically, there are certain monitoring issues that one experiences. Sometimes we might be monitoring 10 boxes and sometimes 100. The machines will ...
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Recommend a Rackspace Cloud Server API Language Binding?
Rackspace publishes only a hard-to-use HTTP and JSON/XML based "API" (they call it an API but it's really a non-standard Web Service without a WSDL).
There are dozens of open-source language bindings ...
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Cloud Providers that support FreeBSD? [closed]
NOTE: Even though I've accepted an answer for this, if you have a better one, please put it below. Thanks!
I'm looking for recommendations from the wise and all-knowing Server Fault community on ...
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Using WebSphere CloudBurst with PowerVM to AIX virtualization over a cloud
we are studying the virtualization option to reduce our datacenter cost, and this research was assigned to me.
we looked into alternatives and we almost reached a conclusion that PowerVM is the only ...
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CentOS with an Ubuntu kernel
The Rackspace cloud server tech tells my CentOS 5.4 VPS (Xen) runs "CentOS with an Ubuntu kernel"
Could someone explain, in plain terms, what "CentOS with an Ubuntu kernel" means and if there are any ...
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Do Cloud Vendors ensure ACID properties while offering Relational Database services?
ACID properties are important for the RDMS applications.There are many relational database services offered by the cloud providers such as AMAZON RDS and Microsoft SQL Azure.
i'm curious about if the ...
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Distributed computing for a company? Is there such a 'free' thing?
I am new to the whole distributed computing / cloud thing. But I had an idea at work for our multimedia stuff like movie encoding / cpu intensive things tasks (which sometimes take a few hours).
Is ...
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Cloud Computing - Multiple Physical Computers, One Logical Computer
I know that you can set up multiple virtual machines per physical computer. I'm wondering if it's possible to make multiple physical computers behave as one logical unit?
Fundamentally the way I ...
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How to put 1000 lightweight server applications in the cloud
The company I work for sells a commercial desktop/server app that runs on any non dedicated Windows PC or server and uses Tomcat for all interactions with the application. Customers are asking that ...
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Does Cloud Computing COST a premium? (or is it competitive with shared/managed/co-location)
Since cloud solutions (Google AppEngine, Amazon, etc.) do more for you, at the end of the day do they cost significantly more than doing it "yourself" with co-location hosting, etc.
Not just ...
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Is virtual machine slower than the underlying physical machine?
This question is quite general, but most specifically I'm interested in knowing if virtual machine running Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud will be any slower than the same physical machine without any ...
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Is it possible to guarantee 100% uptime in redundant hosting servers inside a cloud computing structure?
I'm interested in find a hosting that can offer really 100% of uptime.
Is it possible in hosting servers inside a cloud computing structure?
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What are the functionalities of Distributed File systems and Distributed Storage Systems?
i'm reading cloud vendors solutions for the distributed storage systems such as Amazon Dynamo and Google Big Table.
and really confused in two terms :
what is Distrubuted file systems, Do cloud ...
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vpn/Openvpn as a cloud service
I am working on creating a small cloud (any number of EC2 instances that can be deployed based on load) implementing a VPN as a service for the company I'm working for. This is basically a project ...
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cloud computing ? Eucalyptus [closed]
I want to setup small cloud computing using our old 2 core server system? we are new to cloud system we have google for the same. We are looking host VM's on top any one has done pls share me doc or ...
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What techniques do you use to design and scale a web app horizontally (in EC2)?
Specifically I'm looking for techniques for scaling a web application which has no central database server, in the cloud, but general advice is great.
I have come across GlusterFS, which looks great, ...
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What is the difference between VPS and cloud hosting?
I have tried reading several resources on the internet about cloud computing and VPS but can not see the difference of it. Can anyone explain what is the difference between cloud computing and VPS? IT ...
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Custom Windows AMI for Amazon EC2
I am new to the Amazon EC2 services and I am planning to host a Windows based vm on Amazon. I have lot of fuzziness about AMIs on Amazon. So my first question would be, am I be able to install ...
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Web Site Serving, Cloud-Computing
I'm planning a software based service. To give it a bit of context (type of traffic), assume it similar to facebook in nature (with a little GitHub thrown in).
I've been trying to understand my ...
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How to upload stuff to Amazon EC2 Windows instance?
I've never used Amazon EC2 - I am thinking to test a few instances for running intensive computation processes I have a requirement for rather than buying real hardware.
I am given to understand the ...
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amazon cloud vs rackspace cloud [closed]
I'm looking to take a dedicated server - in the process I read about Amazon Cloud computing & Rackspace Cloud Servers.
Now I'm not sure which one to opt? Could somebody suggest - Performance &...