Vim-Fu

One of the major problems in having your systems in Amazon’s EC2 cloud is that the ip you get assigned is almost surely blacklisted with every major email blacklist  before you’ve sent a single piece of email (check for this using mxtoolbox.com).  I learned this the hard way when I started hearing the our registration and [...]

We are gearing up for the “next phase” release of our EC2 deployment and I’ve taken the opportunity to re-think the scheme based on my experiences over the last 8 or so months of using EC2. I have come up with something that is FAR better in my [...]

This post will help you better understand the process of “baking” AMI’s and provide you with a script to make the process a trivial [...]

Getting Cacti installed and talking to 20 machines is one thing, but getting it to monitor several hundred and automating the addition of new machines so that you can take advantage of ec2′s lateral scaling is what this post is all [...]