09 January 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Load balancing in EC2 with Nginx and HAProxy

TweetWe wanted to setup a loadbalanced web cluster in AWS for expansion. My first inclination was to use ELB for this, but I soon learned that ELB doesn’t let you allocate a static IP, requiring you to refer to it only by DNS name. This would be OK except for the fact that our current [...]

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28 April 2011 ~ 8 Comments

Integrating Amazon Simple Email Service with postfix for SMTP smarthost relaying.

How I configured an EC2 instance to relay mail through Amazon’s SES, and some of the bumps I encountered along the way.

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02 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Amazon EC2 – ext3 mkfs takes 30+ minutes?

TweetI’ve been playing around with Amazon EC2 for a new project I’m working on and so far I’m really impressed. One thing I’ve noticed, however, is that it takes forever to create an ext3 filesystem on a new volume. For example, the below command took over 30 minutes to create the filesystem on a 300 [...]

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