Amazon Web Services (S3, EC2)

I'm hoping there are some really simple questions to these answers, but I'm wondering how to setup hostname and mail server domain name settings.

I'm using the Pantheon Mercury AMIs to create instances. The server is up and running fine.

When a new user registers, the mail is sent from ec2-79-125-64-6.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com instead of dev.mysite.com. All the links in the email point to the long AWS name instead of the short real name.

A) Do I need to specify a hostname somewhere in the ubuntu server configuration.

Hey, was able to go in today and flesh out the consistent snapshot wiki a bit.

Included taking snapshots if you have an EBS boot drive and deleting snapshots automatically.

If you have a chance take a look. Think it's all working now, but there could be a few typos.

The wiki is here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/36766

I've followed the Step by Step Mecury 1.1 Wiki (http://groups.drupal.org/node/70268) successfully and would now like to create an AMI of this instance. It's root device type is EBS and I began with the Alestic AMI (Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Canonical, ubuntu EBS boot: ami-714ba518). I used the GUI at the AWS management console and followed their instructions:

To create an Image from an EBS-based Instance
Select an instance that shows "ebs" in the Root Device Type field, click Instance Actions and select Create Image.
The confirmation dialog box appears.

Recently, I began experimenting with ec2 using the Mercury/pressflow ami-e14c1da4. I then installed Aegir on my own before I saw macrocosm's excellent tutorial on how to go about things here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/55393. I didn't attaching any EBS drives, for example.

Now that I've installed Aegir, and my handful of sites, on their various platforms, I would like to keep all that configuration, and make it easy to backup.

Are there any freelancers available to help move a site to Amazon EC2 + Mercury?

I have played with the amis but I really have never setup a server before so Im looking to hire someone to get me off the ground running.

Anyone available? Please help me!

Hello,

I'm putting together a healthcare demo using the Mercury 1.0 image. The client requires that HTTPS be part of the demo.

I've installed everything and have all up and running. When I try to access an https page, the request times out. I'm not an Apache2 expert, so I'm hoping someone can give me a tip on where I went wrong. The following is a debug listing of the Apache2 error log --

[Thu Mar 25 17:04:28 2010] [info] Loading certificate & private key of SSL-aware server

Looks like I generated a little buzz when I mentioned in my SxSw talk that I'd recently done a proof of concept scaling Open Atrium to 200+ requests/second using EC2. Since a number of people have asked about it, here's the skinny:

Disclaimer

First of all, I need to point out that this was a proof of concept build designed to let me know if the use-case I was pursuing (1000s of logged in users in a "burst" scenario) was even feasible or not. I cannot guarantee these results for your business case; your mileage may vary, etc.

The Basic Setup