After you start your AWS EC2 Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala server in 6 mins, if you had to install a full LAMP (Apache PHP and Mysql) stack here is how you do it in under 4 minutes:
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I have a developer who I am working with to launch a new flash games portal. This portal required running an import and translation process for over 50000 games from a variety of publishers using php and curl.
He needed larger than normal CPU and RAM for his script to run and bring in the games and translate all their meta data.
Amazon’s EC2 is a great platform for such an on-demand computing task. I was able to bring up an instance (m1.large – 7.5 GB memory 4 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each) 850 GB instance storage (2×420 GB plus 10 GB root partition) 64-bit platform I/O Performance: High) and hand it over to him to run the importer and the translation job for 5 hours each weekend evening with extreme ease and I would love to share this with all of you. Continue reading
When you create an Office Live Meeting and send it to others in form of an Outlook invite, it appends a lot of URL’s for the start of the meeting for the user’s convenience.
One of the links it embeds is :
“Make sure the Office Live Meeting client is installed before the meeting. <http://r.office.microsoft.com/r/rlidOCS?clid=1033&p1=livemeeting>”
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I was trying to go through compete’s numbers for various sites along with what compete says a site is about.
Look at the two screenshots below for compete’s wordpress.com numbers:
How did I do this? I performed the following steps:
1. Go to Domai.nr. I want this blog to educate my followers so I wanted to search for something that is a .com domain in the education space. I tried different variations and I got lucky in finding the domain edukatr.com.
Domai.nr Domain Suggestion website
Here is another cool domain name generator that you may like for your site.
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