I’ve forked a cool gist code, made by klangley here, to allow a more reasonable number of database backups using the Amazon S3 storage webservice. My forked version is available here: https://gist.github.com/4107260 and allows a rotating daily backup and a rotating weekly backup: in this way you’ll have 4-5 weekly backups (one for each week of the month) and 6 daily backups (one for […]

One of the last works in which I’m involved is the creation of a webserver to handle a dozen of websites. This task can be done in different ways: you can grab the best and pay many (many many) dollars or you can try to understand what is the best way to accomplish it. I prefer the second solution. So, […]

Nell’Amazon Management Console (AMC) è possibile creare/modificare/eliminare un disco EBS spostandosi sul tab “EC2” e selezionando la voce “Volumes” nel menù a sinistra. Il costo del volume dipende dalla sua dimensione e per quanto tempo lo si usa: da 0,10$ per GB/mese a 0,125$ per GB/mese a seconda che si scelga di utilizzare un disco EBS Standard o un disco Provisioned […]