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This blog is now running on 8.5.2 on Amazon EC2, S3 Firefox Organiser was useful
Now running on 852, the whole upgrade took 5 or 6 minutes, in fact the hardest part was getting the install files to the server. I used Amazon S3 storage and the wget command from Linux. One useful tip is that although the S3 control panel has an upload limit of 600Mb...
Notes basic ( non eclipse ) is very useful now but will it hold Notes back in the future ?
I had my "road to Damascus moment" recently when I saw the same app run in Xpages on the client and on the web with no extra coding, or more accurately not much extra coding. I realised that Notes had passed a huge milestone and some of my long held beliefs were...
Receiving POP3 mail into a Linux Domino server using getmail and sendmail
I have a need to receive mail from a POP3 account into a domino server running on Centos 5.5 as an appliance. Some time ago on windows I used the Chimeras Email Forwarding System which worked very well but this was a Linux server. The scheme I came up with uses...
EC2, too clever for me, snapshots, multiple servers, instant servers, but "release" your IP address and it all falls over ( for days ).
Dear reader, you will probably be reading this in a few days time because I have just pressed the wrong button in EC2. It's been an interesting lesson. Part of moving to the cloud is all the extra redundancy that you get. You feel that the incredibly powerful controls...
Amazon EC2 – good and bad
Some of you may have noticed that the site has just been down for about 25 minutes. I decided to make a new AMI ( basically a template ) of the running server now that it has FP3 and for some reason doing this took the server down - its probably in the small print...
AppendRTItem – only appends the first 32 k – I never knew that
A comment buried in the official example Note The changes are not visible until the document (after the script has completed) is closed and reopened. Also note that the AppendRichTextItem method appends only the first 32K of a RichTextItem; the remainder is truncated....
SNTT : Installing Traveler on an old 32 bit server is so much easier with linux than windows server 2008
Note 1 : Notes 8.5.2 is beta and there are no guarantees that the features described here will be in the final product that IBM ships. Note 2 : The description below is for a development server and may or may not be suitable for production depending on your...
Amazon EC2 Running costs after 1 full month – 52 USD
I have been running a Domino server in EC2 for a couple of months now and thought I would do a post about the costs. I wrote up the scheme here. Note that this is a Domino server built from scratch and not the new Domino development image. The server is based in...
SNTT : Accessing a Notes Server with a notes client via Port 22
You can get to a Notes server from a Notes client via port 22 if you use the tunnelling feature in Putty. Useful if you are looking at an appliance type deployment for browser apps. Note that you will need a connection document listing the ip address as localhost as...
SNTT: Creating a persistent EC2 Domino Instance with EBS boot volumes
update : there is now also an official IBM Domino AMI and a wiki article although I think it will take some work to make it persistent. After reading Michael Brown's excellent article about setting up an "Ephemeral" Domino server on EC2 I decided to look at using EC2...