The Secret History of OpenStack, the Free Cloud Software That’s Changing Everything | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

OpenStack is software anyone can use to build their own version of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, the massively popular web service that gives developers and businesses instant access to virtual servers. The roots of OpenStack stretch back only about four years to a skunk works project inside of NASA via The Secret History of OpenStack, …

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Server Monitoring With munin And monit On Debian Squeeze | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials

In this article I will describe how you can monitor your Debian Squeeze server with munin and monit. munin produces nifty little graphics about nearly every aspect of your server (load average, memory usage, CPU usage, MySQL throughput, eth0 traffic, etc.) without much configuration, whereas monit checks the availability of services like Apache, MySQL, Postfix …

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