EC2 Consulting: Referral program for Amazon EC2
To help accelerate my Amazon EC2 consulting goals (at least 10 clients per month to start), I am considering a referral program which will pay $50-$100 per paying referral. This is a great and easy way for someone to make extra money referring potential clients to my services.
If you’re not aware of Amazon EC2, there’s a lot of information available here. In a nutshell, it’s a phenomenal, mass utility computing platform which utilizes Amazon’s multi-billion dollar IT infrastructure to power web applications and more.
EC2 Consulting: Asterisk PBX and Amazon EC2
For a few months now, I’ve evaluated, tested and deployed various images (virtual servers) and applications on Amazon’s robust EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) platform. I not only host various websites on the service, but also databases, files and even Digium’s Asterisk PBX!
Two months ago, I installed the Asterisk PBX (I like to compile the code, rather than using packages) to one of my EC2 servers for testing. Everything worked flawlessly, except an annoying SIP over NAT issue which prevented the passing of audio between clients and the server. Now that I’ve corrected it, I recently transitioned my Asterisk configuration away form home to Amazon EC2.
The result? Success! I couldn’t be happier with the performance of my PBX on Amazon EC2 when compared to my Dell PowerEdge 2400 server at home. Now, I can add even more phone lines and features thanks to the increase in processing power and bandwidth.
This is telephony on steroids!
Learn more about the Amazon EC2 service and be sure to come back here to take advantage of my 10% discount on EC2 consulting services.
EC2 Consulting: Amazon EC2 + WordPress 2.5 = Perfection!
Yesterday, I upgraded ronaldlewis.com to WordPress 2.5. Overall, I really like the feel and presentation of the upgraded dashboard, among many things. As a blogging platform, WordPress and the team at Automattic have once again raised the bar for blogging and instant publishing. There are noticeable improvements in performance as well. And, using Amazon EC2 as my preferred host provider makes for a complete and great web experience.
To learn more about Amazon EC2 — The world’s best utility computing platform — Click here. When you’ve read about all the great features and cost benefits of using Amazon EC2, be sure to come back here for a 10% discount on my EC2 consulting services.
EC2 Consulting: Elastic IP Addresses and Availability Zones
Amazon just announced several new features for its EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) service today (learn more about it here and take advantage of my 10% discount on consulting services as mentioned by Amazon). Among them are static IP addresses. Here’s the e-mail announcement. For more details, read their recent blog post:
This is a quick note to let you know about some exciting changes with Amazon EC2. We are happy to announce two significant new features - Elastic IP Addresses and Availability Zones - which help you to run reliable web sites and other applications within Amazon EC2.
Elastic IP Addresses are static IP addresses designed for dynamic cloud computing, and now make it easy to host web sites, web services and other online applications in Amazon EC2. Elastic IP addresses are associated with your AWS account, not with your instances, and can be programmatically mapped to any of your instances. This allows you to easily recover from instance and other failures while presenting your users with a static IP address.
Availability Zones give you the ability to easily and inexpensively operate a highly available internet application. Each Amazon EC2 Availability Zone is a distinct location that is engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones. Previously, only very large companies had the scale to be able to distribute an application across multiple locations, but now it is as easy as changing a parameter in an API call. You can choose to run your application across multiple Availability Zones to be prepared for unexpected events such as power failures or network connectivity issues, or you can place instances in the same Availability Zone to take advantage of free data transfer and the lowest latency communication.With these two new features, it now easier than ever for you to isolate your application from common failure scenarios and host high availability web sites in Amazon EC2.
For more information on how to best leverage this new functionality, please see our Feature Guides for Elastic IP Addresses and Availability Zones.
Sincerely,
The Amazon EC2 Team
Graphic Design Projects for the Week of March 2
Here’s samples from recent graphic design projects I’ve completed. I’d love to create something for you! Contact me here.
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