Just signed up for the beta of Ubuntu Server Edition for EC2 being released by Canonical. The servers I wrote about deploying recently were Ubuntu servers built using the images from Alestic.com. Bighugelabs.com is running on Ubuntu Server Edition as well (on a physical server). It’ll be nice to get “official” images directly from the [...]

Last week I completed the move of a web site hosted on a physical server to Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing platform. The experience was educational to say the least and so far I’m pretty happy with things. I’ll post a follow-up after I’ve had a few more weeks of experience with it. In the meantime, [...]