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Cuts through the hype and explains what it's really about. And most importantly if you suddenly realize that you need 50 new machines, t...

Clouds are the new big thing, and like most rising technology concepts that you can give a single word or acronym to, its not something you ...

I've just followed some very helpful instructions on taking an image of a real (Linux) machine and turning it into Virtual Machine. It ...

I've been investigating jumpbox , who give you downloadable virtual servers that do one thing well - e.g. wiki, bug tracking, Wordpress,...

Follow up on my previous post where I said my virtual machine Just Worked . The trouble with resuming a virtual machine is that it's got...

I've got an Ubuntu virtual machine which I've used quite a lot recently. For one thing I can ssh onto other Linux machines (both rea...

I've been recommended slicehost.com for virtual hosting. Prices start at $20/month, so you for twice or three times what you may pay fo...

The penny has just dropped with EC2 pricing. You don't pay by the CPU/hour, you pay by the instance/hour. So even if your instance is do...

My latest bit of playing around, er, investigation, is with Amazon's EC2 service. I'm thinking of using it for website hosting. I d...