http://www.cloudmess.com Cleaning up the cloud since 2008 Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:10:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So if you ever have a need to set the hostname of a newly provisioned Red Hat style box from your reverse dns PTR record that you've assigned to that machine (ideally through DHCP) here you go: sed -i s/localhost.localdomain/`host \`ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet addr:'| cut -d: -f2 | ... http://www.cloudmess.com/?p=36 So I've been doing a lot of contract consulting lately, which is about to wrap up. I've been working with and for some movers and shakers in the cloud world, including John Willis (a good buddy and all-around great guy) and Randy Bias (cloud guru extraordinaire). I've had a great ... http://www.cloudmess.com/?p=34 Sören Bleikertz has been poking around EC2 instances and found some nice ways of seeing what's under the hood. Check it out at his blog. http://www.cloudmess.com/?p=32 and I missed a lot. First: a confession. I'm a sporadic blogger at best, so you won't see me posting early and often here. Meat: I missed manifestogate. I was following it via twitter (I'm @keithhudgins) that I caught from John Willis, and picked up Reuven Cohen who is, unbeknownst to me, ... http://www.cloudmess.com/?p=29 Got this from Infoworld who got it from Microsoft at the Mix09 conference that Microsoft's supporting PHP on Azure. Whoa. Supported open-source environment on Azure?!? They're talking about their FastCGI environment running other stacks, too. Ruby was mentioned. My mind is officially blown. http://www.cloudmess.com/?p=27 I just came across this blog post from Tim Bray, which gives some good insider-perspective on what Sun's got building for a cloud offering. I'm intrigued: It's not a hosted-application-cloud, it's a real, honest-to-goodness IT virtual datacenter cloud a-la Amazon EC2. They're developing an open api to control the thing. More on ... http://www.cloudmess.com/?p=25 Sometimes you need a system backup. Other times, you need to launch your box ten times. Maybe you're working on your new web cluster and need to build an image for your web server role. There's tons of reasons, but if you're using Amazon EC2, there will come a time when ... http://www.cloudmess.com/?p=20 I knew I was missing something when I was listing out some hosting providers for developer-focused cloud app hosting, so here goes: Morph AppSpace is a paid hosting service with some cloudlike features - you can pay by the 'cube' or hosting unit - kinda like an Amazon EC2 Compute Unit ... http://www.cloudmess.com/?p=17 I'm running off to the Atlanta Cloud Meetup in a few minutes, so I don't have a lot of time to post, but here's a few links that I've come across on some cloud updates: Google has updated the AppEngine SDK. I'm not a big AppEngine programmer, so hopefully someone will ... http://www.cloudmess.com/?p=12 There are two types of cloud infrastructure offerings that are important for small business and startups: developer-centric hosting services, which take care of a lot of the day-to-day system tasks for you, or the infrastructure-focused options, which give you flexibility at the cost of having to do a lot of ... http://www.cloudmess.com/?p=10