Apr

15

Monitor Your Servers and EC2 Instances with Cacti

I recently had the job of setting up cacti on an Ubuntu an Amazon EC2 Instance, so I thought I’d share with you all how to get it running, and what you can monitor with it.

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Note: This tutorial is designed for an ubuntu based server, but will translate to most unix setups

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Apr

15

Exploring Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

This week I’ve been reading a great deal about Amazon EC2, a service which lets you rent servers from Amazon’s huge server farms from as little as 10 cents/hour ($73/month).

The principle behind EC2 is genius. You select which ‘AMI’ (linux image) you want to start your server with, then choose what spec you want.

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