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Slicehost vs Linode
Update: since I did these statistics, Linode has upgraded their memory offering even more, which means that their offer is even better than what I show here. As of summer 2010, Slicehost'…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 13 posts.
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Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Rsync
How to make easy, automated snapshot-style backups with rsync and UNIX
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Lazy Linux: 10 essential tricks for admins
The open source operating system that runs the world.
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Scaling on EC2 - WebMynd's experiences (YC Winter '08)
Being an extension on the Recommended List brings explosive growth. This is an overview of some the things we’ve done to contain that expansion.
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Website runs all in S3, no server.
It’s practical to use Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) as the backend for a web application WITHOUT any intervening application server. I have the code to prove it and I’m sharing it. If you’re a nerd, read on otherwise you may want to skip this post
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How To: Getting Started with EC2 (for beginners)
Amazon EC2 is among the more potent items in Amazon's web services arsenal. You've probably heard of many of the other services such as S3 for storage and FPS for payments. EC2 is all about the "elastic compute cloud." In layman's terms, it's a server. In slightly less layman's terms, EC2 lets you e