Here is the screencast of the presentation I gave at the Trivalley Drupal Users Group at Webthingee in Livermore, CA. It is a live demo that shows how to install Drupal 7.10 on AWS EC2′s t1.micro spot instance with an RDS back end.
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This morning I went to Zipcar to check out their offering. I clicked on the drop down menu which is captioned “where can I drive?”. Then I clicked on San Francisco.
Here is the error message is got:
ZipCar Error Message
Hint: It is NOT to use ec2-create-image command from command line.
Most of my previous posts on AWS have focused on Linux AMI’s specifically (Ubuntu) on EC2. This time I have decided to focus to default Windows AMIs from Amazon which are EBS backed (t1.micro, et al) and how to clone them to enable instant starts from previously known state or elastic load balancing for auto scaling. Continue reading
Here is the screencast of my Bay Area LAMP MeetUp presentation. Continue reading
So do you remember my flagship Amazon Web Services EC2 post “How to start an AWS EC2 Ubuntu Server for your developer in 6 minutes?”
I showed you step by step how to start yourself on AWS and then how to create keypairs and logon to your instance on the command prompt, add new user, give the new user sudo access and finally configure ssh access without keypair and opening up ssh access for any machine using a user id and password. Continue reading
Here is the video of my presentation at the 2010 WordCamp LA: Continue reading
Originally Posted: 08 Sep 2010 03:56 PM PDT
Today’s Google instant release has a lot of buzz in the SEO world that Google instant will make SEO irrelevant.
Contrary I think it makes SEO all the more relevant. Here is why I have that opinion:
For each head search and long tail search sites that are well on page optimized and off-page (such as high quality in bound pointing links) will still bubble up to the top. Continue reading
Originally Posted: 06 Aug 2010 11:23 AM PDT
Overall it is a very well laid out Drupal website. Continue reading
Originally Posted: 29 Jul 2010 10:38 AM PDT
Once you are up with your Amazon EC2 instance of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) using Alestic’s ami-bb709dd2, I will show you how to install Drupal 7 with Postgres 8.4 instead of Mysql database.
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Originally Posted: 18 Jul 2010 12:18 PM PDT
As noted before, I started a reserved instance for hosting an online game project. I also need a processing machine every other day to run 3 processes: my game import, upload game swf and image to S3 and translator for the game meta. I use Amazon’s spot instances to accomplish this. A spot instance is a cheaper instance than an on-demand instance and its pricing is based on availability of excess capacity that Amazon has at any given point in time.
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