Gary’s Shared Google Reader ItemsIt’s been a while since I’ve assessed new load balancers. At my previous gig, we had used LVS successfully for 5 years. It worked great, but was a bit of a configuration nightmare. I think I went through 2 or 3 different frameworks to handle configuration and backend server monitoring.
I’ve just reached the load balancing [...]
I came across something odd today. I’m debugging a service startup on a new EC2 image. When I was looking through log files, I noticed the system was in runlevel 4, not 3.
Apparently this is something that Xen does. I’ve found lots of posts referring to this, but none explaining why. Most people agree run [...]
I started backing up our servers to S3 a few weeks ago. I had been doing weekly tar based backups to my laptop over SSH. Some of the backups are starting to get big, so it was time to move to something else.
My key requirements were to back up to S3 and to use encryption [...]
