Archive for the ‘Cloud Computing’ Category

What happens when you reboot your EC2 instance?

We had to answer this question yesterday when our EC2 instance stopped responding and was constantly showing 100% CPU load. SSH wasn’t working and neither was apache responding. The CPU was hung at 100% load for a full day. Hence, we decided that a reboot was the only solution. I had a notion (and had [...]

Super easy SUB-URI hosting with mod_rails

With an Amazon EC2 instance up, next very obvious task was to get the hosting up. Objective was to host static content along with multiple Rails apps on the same EC2 instance. Purists might not agree to this, but getting up and running was the first target. Apache is configured with DocumentRoot as /mnt/app/shared My [...]