We were able to install DirectAdmin (a Web hosting control panel) on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, branded as EC2. We would like to share the steps required to build a working instance of DirectAdmin on an Amazon server. First, I would like to personally thank Mark from DirectAdmin for being so accommodating and granting us [...]
If you attempt to store a file larger than roughly 5GB, the Amazon service will generate the following error and fail to store the file: <Error><Code>EntityTooLarge</Code><Message>Your proposed upload exceeds the maximum allowed object size</Message><ProposedSize>6091682399</ProposedSize><MaxSizeAllowed>5368709120</MaxSizeAllowed></Error> One way around this limitation is use the GNU/Linux command split to divide the file into several smaller chunks, which are [...]
A customer wanted Amazon’s S3 tools installed on his Centos 5.3 server in order to backup important files off-network. The task is straight forward as it requires installing the usual Ruby interpreter, tools, and Gems. But as it turned out, cPanel appends an exclude line in /etc/yum.conf to prevent installing anything related to Ruby: exclude=apache* [...]
