Ease is bigger threat to progress than hardship
I hope you have seen the movie Now you see me, it has a famous quote The closer you think you are, the less you’ll actually see. Well, this blog is not about this movie but how I got stuck into an issue, because I was not paying attention and looking at the things closely and …
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Today an issue reported to me that website of our client was loading very slow which was hosted on AWS Windows server and the same website was loading fine when accessed from outside AWS network,I just felt like might be a regular issue but it all together took me to an inside out of the …
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Thousands of organizations use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host their applications and manage their data in the cloud. The advantage of geographic availability, scalability and reliability make AWS a great choice.Due to recent and more frequently-occurring breaches in security in a number of environments, It is necessary for us to take data protection strategy …
In our day-to-day life, we take a lot of things for granted: our body, food, friends, family, internet, domain name (URL) of facebook, IP address of instagram, etc. In our ignorance, we forget to consider how much their absence would affect us, the hardship and inconvenience we’d face, if, one day, any of these just …
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When ssh: connect to host ip_address port 22 Connection refused Unable to access server??? Exactly when you see the error – “ssh: connect to host ip_address port 22: Connection refused” while connecting your AWS EC2 Instance. In order to find solution of the problem, you will go to AWS forum and other channels where you need to …
Few weeks back I got a requirement to setup a highly available API server. I said not a big deal! I’ll have Nginx as a reverse proxy(Why not directly exposing API via ELB a different story) and my API auto scaled setup will sit behind an internal ELB and things would be in place TA …
This blog talks about the two possible ways of hosting your infrastructure in Cloud, though it will be more close to hosting on AWS as it is a real life example but this problem can be applied to any cloud infrastructure set-up. I’m just sharing my thoughts and pros & cons of both approaches but …
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If you want to minimize the amount of money you spend on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure, then this blog post is for you. In this post I will be discussing the rationale behind starting & stopping AWS instances in an automated fashion and more importantly, doing it in a correct way. Obviously you could …
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This blog will talk about how to mount a new volume to an existing EC2 instance, though it is very straightforward & simple, but it’s good to have a checklist ready with you so that you can do things in one go instead of searching here and there. The most important thing to take note …
One of the suggested practices in cloud administration is to always host your applications on a Virtual Private Cloud. Also, you should have a public subnet hosting the public facing apps, and a private subnet which hosts the private apps (like a database or a back-end service/app). To know more about why you need such …
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