Thanks for adding more technical content!

Yeah I got an announcement in my email about it. I was reading about it here: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/12/announcing-new-amazon-ec2-m6g-c6g-and-r6g-instances-powered-by-next-generation-arm-based-aws-graviton2-processors

@Alex-Jones said in How to increase EBS volume size on AWS: Thanks! My pleasure! That can come in handy when dealing with the Clintons or reptilian aliens.

@scottalanmiller said in Azure Warm Backup Site: @IRJ said in Azure Warm Backup Site: Both places had under 250 employees and had offside data centers. But had on prem for their primary workloads? We had a very old core that only supported a few apps and none of them were SaaS at the time

It is because of this licensing discrepency that we know that CloudAtCost was running a scam. They advertised Windows servers that were unlicensed, and unlicensable.

YOu can also do a free test from Qualys https://www.qualys.com/free-services/ https://www.qualys.com/community-edition/

@aaronstuder said in GeekBench Results for Cloud Servers: @scottalanmiller They are both from Scaleway. I screwed up, lol. OH okay. that's why I was wondering about the type

@storageninja (I know some Nutanix guys tried it but kept burning out SATA DOMs). Sata dom? Who the f*** still uses them? Even when I was a c++ coder in automation industry we were phasing out them 3 years ago! Just mainteinance of production stuff. Btw I see your point. For these applications MS releases Windows embedded compact only

@Romo I should find out soon enough. Just finished spinning up a new VM for this.

So hit a roadblock about code deploy. This was taken considering we update the files. Later realized that we might have user generated content/content added by admin via the Drupal CMS backened. In that case those files for example images will be saved on the one particular EC2 and during a scale down the instance could go down, or may not be available in the newly booted up instance. Luckily Amazon have another service called Elastic File System used for such cases! I now moved the sites folder of drupal to EFS. So basic Drupal core files on the EC2 AMI image i created, plus sites folder on EFS, with auto enabling that on each loaded instance by adding the below script: #cloud-config package_upgrade: true packages: - nfs-utils runcmd: - mkdir -p /var/www/html/efs-mount-point/ - chown ec2-user:ec2-user /var/www/html/efs-mount-point/ - echo "$(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/placement/availability-zone).file-system-id.efs.aws-region.amazonaws.com:/ /var/www/html/efs-mount-point nfs4 nfsvers=4.1,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,hard,timeo=600,retrans=2 0 0" >> /etc/fstab - mount -a -t nfs4 I am hoping to do a video tutorial this weekend about the whole setup

@Dashrender said in Windows VM in the cloud: I do realize that, but if the system works on LInux, it will probably work anywhere. That's not solid logic. Lots of things run on Linux but not in a browser.

@MattSpeller said in How this IT Team Became Heroes: Isn't it an iron clad rule that there are no heros in IT? There was that great thread on SW years ago, I wish that I had the link, where there were hundreds of responses to "who is your IT hero" and not one, literally, not a single one, mentioned someone who worked in IT except for one...and the thing that made him their hero wasn't his IT work but his writing and not his writing about IT but his writing about time management. Zero IT people made the list. All marketing, sales or software people... and one writer.

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