There are an increasing number of Platform as a Service options available for developers, so it’s no surprise that Zend have joined the party. PHP Cloud is a public preview at the moment, but it already offers key features such as: MySQL access, source code management via Git, deployment to other cloud services, and SFTP access.

In this article, I’ll show you how to set up a CakePHP installation in an application container within PHP Cloud. Along the way, you’ll see how to access MySQL, deploy code, and use SFTP from your FTP client to access the application container.

Computing is full of buzzwords, “cloud computing” being the latest one. But unlike most trends that fizzle out after the initial surge, cloud computing is here to stay. This article goes over Amazon’s S3 cloud storage service and guides you to implementing a WordPress plugin that backs up your WordPress database to Amazon’s S3 cloud. Note that this is not a tutorial on creating a WordPress plugin from scratch, so some familiarity with plugin development is assumed.

Fluidinfo is often described as “Wikipedia for data”. More precisely, it is a single-instance online storage solution that makes it possible for people, businesses, and their applications to create, search on, organize, and share metadata about anything. Fluidinfo provides instant online APIs to those who use it for storage.

nhosted is a project for strengthening free software against hosted software. With our protocol, a website is only source code. Dynamic data is encrypted and decentralised, to per-user storage nodes. This benefits free software, as well as scalability, robustness, and online privacy.

Lately, we have been involved in a project where our clients needed a site capable of serving a large number of anonymous users and a reasonable number of concurrently logged in users. In order to reach these goals, we looked to cloud computing. We first got as much caching as possible, since this is relatively simple and goes a long way. We next created a distributed system. This posting describes how we got it to work. A diagram of our architecture is below and the various configurations are summarized at the bottom.

I’ve spent most of my recent life in cloud APIs. While common belief may suggest otherwise, clouds generally don’t come with a “make my IT problems disappear” button. There are a lot of tools that help you launch a predefined image of an operating system. However, stopping there leaves you with what I’d call Cloud Toys, all the drawbacks of unmanaged servers on a cool API Luckily, we don’t have to stop there. Read through this and you’ll see how you can make some serious cloud server action.

Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud is the product, powered by Eucalyptus, that allows you to easily run your own Amazon-EC2-like private cloud. It’s a lot simpler than you’d think.
This is 3 parts tutorial you can use to Run your own Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud

Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurence within the body of text.

This is a Ruby interface into the Rackspace Mosso Cloud Files service. Cloud Files is reliable, scalable and affordable web-based storage hosting for backing up and archiving all your static content. Cloud Files is the first and only cloud service that leverages a tier one CDN provider to create such an easy and complete storage-to-delivery solution for media content.