Today was the second day of our mini computer bootcamp for friends and family. The goal was to have a functioning and hosted website up and running. We started out by using nslookup to find the IP address of a web server – we use ziggeo.com as an example. If you are on Mac OS you can simply do this in terminal (which we learned about yesterday and used again extensively today – I am not sure what the easiest way to do this is on Windows, but if you have your Raspberry Pi handy from yesterday ...

Today was the second day of our mini computer bootcamp for friends and family. The goal was to have a functioning and hosted website up and running. We started out by using nslookup to find the IP address of a web server – we use ziggeo.com as an example. If you are on Mac OS you can simply do this in terminal (which we learned about yesterday and used again extensively today – I am not sure what the easiest way to do this is on Windows, but if you have your Raspberry Pi handy from yesterday ...

Another announcement from last week that got strangely little attention was Amazon’s introduction of EC2 Reserved Instances. Now reserved instances in the cloud may sound like an oxymoron but it is simply guaranteed capacity. You pay an upfront fee for the guarantee that your instance will be availabl and then a lower ongoing usage fee. Amazon clearly has a ton of usage information on EC2 available that let’s them price this fairly aggressively. For instance paying a 1-year guarantee fee redu...

Another announcement from last week that got strangely little attention was Amazon’s introduction of EC2 Reserved Instances. Now reserved instances in the cloud may sound like an oxymoron but it is simply guaranteed capacity. You pay an upfront fee for the guarantee that your instance will be availabl and then a lower ongoing usage fee. Amazon clearly has a ton of usage information on EC2 available that let’s them price this fairly aggressively. For instance paying a 1-year guarantee fee redu...