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Posts from January 2009

Posted
31 January 2009 @ 10pm

Rent vs. Buy (or EC2 vs. building your own iron)

Over the past months Jeff Atwood (of Coding Horror fame) has been chronicling Stack Overflows quest for new hardware, starting with “Server Hosting – Rent vs. Buy?” and ending with some glamour shots. I’ve recently (along with others) built a setup for a .Net website in the same “to big for shared or low-end VPS [...]

Posted
27 January 2009 @ 1am

Tagged
Cloud, SQL

EC2 SQL Server backup strategies and tactics

The many backup modes offered by Microsoft SQL server, combined with the prodigious hardware options offered on Amazon EC2 can make choosing a backup strategy for your setup a little confusing. In this post, I’ll sketch some options and end with a simple PowerShell script usable on both Express and Standard versions, that’ll backup your [...]

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Posts from January 2009

Rent vs. Buy (or EC2 vs. building your own iron)

EC2 SQL Server backup strategies and tactics