Jan 042012
I’ve moved all my blog sites (why do I have so many? :-W ) to an Amazon EC2 micro instance running Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit version, everything seems good so far and I will let it running there for a week or two before doing the switch. The most important factor that will or will not make the transition is cost – based on my rough calculation the cost for EC2 will be something around $17 (forget the free tier, I have to pay for it after one year anyway), and Linode is $19.99.
If these blog sites work fine, I will try to put some other stuffs over EC2, and at the same time, try out EC2 work with S3 and SDB.
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Oh ya, now what you are reading are coming from EC2.
BTW, another factor to watch is accessibility from China, you know … GFW thing …
I enabled PPTP on EC2 node so that I can totally retire Linode host whenever possible, everything seems good so far and have to post several things here so that I wont forget what to do next time:
1. enable net.ipv4.ip_forward
2. put “/sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -j MASQUERADE” to /etc/rc.local, note that ufw is not enabled by default on EC2, so cannot rely on ufw.
and sure, need to change /etc/pptpd.conf, /etc/ppp/chap-secrets, and /etc/ppp/pptpd-options.
I still need to dig out how to setup Hadoop/Hive on EC2+S3, will post later once I find anything – weekend’s coming, lots of stuffs to be done.
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I’ve cancelled Linode hosting, let’s see how Amazon EC2 behaves.