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EC2 Instances, the pitfalls and how to avoid them.

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Percy Kwong

So I decided to take the plunge into moving my mailserver from Linode to EC2 considering it made more sense after doing some math.  The reality is Linode is an excellent VPS host and I still have many machines with them (and highly recommend them), but the reality is at some point, it doesn’t become…

A less costly way to build an Amazon AMI without incurring the cost of doing it on EC2

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Percy Kwong

I build Amazon AMIs.  I started out building them on the actual Amazon EC2 infrastructure myself only to learn that doing so costs the runtime and the money on EC2.    There is an easier way to get alot of it out of the way without it actually costing something. My suggestion is to build a…

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