newbie: cloudmin for EC2

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#1 Tue, 02/09/2010 - 13:12
infield

newbie: cloudmin for EC2

Thinking about cloudmin. We currently run a couple of dedicated servers running cpanel for clients but webmin for internal servers. Thinking about trying out EC2, but nervous. I have some basic questions.

We are thinking about kicking off a low load lamp server to start with. Here is what we run:

  • latest CENTOS
  • LAMP stack
  • Multiple user accounts and IPs
  • TYPO3
  • Magento

What we would like

  • daily system backups
  • individual account backups
  • ability to maintain a base EC2
  • ability to do quick restores

Is this a realistic at his time? Any tip are appreciated. I'm interested in reliability of the EC2 service, ease of management, recommended instances to start with etc.

Thanks, -marc

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 16:14
infield

Actually I may be thinking about this wrong. Does Cloudmin have virtualmin features?

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 19:24
andreychek

Howdy,

Yeah, most of the features you're mentioning above are actually provided by Virtualmin itself... those are two separate products with different feature sets.

Cloudmin is a tool for managing and provisioning VPS's, as well as a tool for assisting you in managing multiple servers.

Virtualmin is a tool for handling web hosting related needs on one server.

At a certain point, when you have enough servers running Virtualmin, having a tool like Cloudmin to tie it all together proves useful :-)

Cloudmin will allow you to create and manage EC2 instances. However, if you only need a few of those, you can always create them manually, and just pop Virtualmin on them.

-Eric

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 23:44
infield

Hi Eric,

Thanks. I have spent the better part of the day playing with the EC2 management console. I am starting to get it. I appreciate the help. It would be nice if there were some screen grabs of the Cloudmin GUI posted.

Thanks, -marc

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