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Does shutdown -h now on a Linux AWS instance stop or terminate the instance?

I am attempting to understand that if I use the command shutdown -h now on a Linux instance running on AWS, does it terminate or simply stop the instance. There doesn't appear to be any official ...
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What DNS setup is required to resolve my domain name(e.g. example.com) into an IP address?

I am using Amazon route 53 as my DNS service provider. I would like to resolve my own domain name into an IPv4 address. Similar to resolving twitter.com into 199.59.148.82, or facebook.com into ...
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Autostart for ubuntu server

Here is the first part of my question. Splitted it because of rule "One topic - one question". My third and main question is about configuring autostart for webserver and database. init.d scripts ...
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User management for linux server

Here is the first part of my question. Should I set up two user accounts; one for the database and another for the web server? Or is it better to have one root user for all purposes?
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Where should I install binaries that don't come as .deb?

I'm going to run EC2 instance for dev purposes on AWS. Most likely Ubuntu (once had it on my laptop). I am Java developer, so I need JDK, Tomcat, Maven, Git and MongoDB on the server. But software in ...
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Where can I find Amazon Linux AMI Image for VirtualBox?

I'm trying to learn AWS and because I'm some familiar with Linux, I think the best way to learn is to get Amazon Linux AMI right into VirtualBox software and play with it. I see the latest Amazon ...
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Large volume at /mnt on AWS instance

I know this is probably a somewhat 'dumb' question :) I have an AWS (small) instance and I just noticed that there is a ~150gb volume attached at /mnt, is this normal? It kinda freaked me out, I was ...
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AWS Load Balancer is slow?

I realize I should probably ask this question on AWS forums but I tend two get quicker responses here. I'm trying to setup a load balanced environment in AWS. I have two EC2 instances that are ...
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What is the difference between Amazon Linux and RedHat Enterprise Linux on AWS EC2?

I am very new to this and I don't even know if I should ask this question here or on Stackoverflow or ServerFault. The Question I wish to set up a EC2 instance on Amazon Web Services. My ...