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Blacklisted Email in Amazon’s EC2 Cloud

jroberts — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:38:13 +0000

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 [...]

A Scalable DNS scheme for Amazon’s EC2 Cloud

jroberts — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:36:06 +0000

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 [...]

bundling versioned ami’s rapidly in Amazon’s ec2

jroberts — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:23:06 +0000

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 [...]

using Cacti to monitor a large scale infrastructure in Amazon’s EC2

jroberts — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:56:59 +0000

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 [...]