HOWTO: Force https with Amazon Elastic Load Balancer and Apache
The Amazon ELB service now supports https, which is great, but how do you configure Apache such that it redirects all insecure requests to use a secure connection? It turns out that the ELB adds a...
View ArticleRun a RAID6 on Amazon EBS For Fun and Profit
With all this badmouthing Amazon’s Elastic Block Store, I wanted to share how we’ve set up our MySQL server for AdGrok. Step 1: Create a bajillion tiny EBS volumes We’ve got a bunch of performance data...
View ArticleHow to deal with Amazon’s “requested Availability Zone is no longer...
In shutting down the AdGrok servers (talk about bittersweet…), I stopped the instances, but then remembered I wanted to shred the files first, so I clicked “start,” and was greeted by the following...
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