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In a Dynamic Flash Gallery template like this, sometimes you might get into a problem where you couldn't receive message from your Contact page. Make sure that your hosting company supports PHP and mail post.

Check the file attributes of contact.php, it should be 777.

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In StoreGrid Cloud AMIs, the Backup Server will receive the backup data from the clients and store the data in EBS volumes (as a temporary cache location) and upload the data to Amazon S3. Please note that, the EBS volume which we use as a temporary storage is also a persistent to store your backed up data.

Even, if the EC2 instance is stopped, the EBS volume will not be affected and the data will be intact with the EBS volume.

If your EC2 instance is stopped, you can create a new EC2 instance and attach the existing EBS volume to your EC2 instance . All your StoreGrid configurations and temporary cache data will be intact with the new EC2 instance. For redundant backups of the EBS you can also configure periodic snapshots for the EBS volumes by using StoreGrid. For that, you need to enable Snapshots in the SGConf.xml file present in the '<Mounted_Location>/SGCloudConf' location and specify the snapshot configuration in SGConf.xml file.

Please refer the following URL to get more details about configuring StoreGrid EC2 instance: http://www.vembu.com/storegrid/amazon-ec2-s3-cloud-online-backup.php

The password which you have set in StoreGrid Web Console will be maintained in the StoreGrid internal database in an encrypted format. So it is not possible to decrypt the password by unforseen visitor.

If you feel the password which you are using currently is not that much secure, then we recommend changing it to an alternate (harder) password for your StoreGrid logon account. You can change the existing logon password for the StoreGrid webconsole by going through the menu "Administration -> Advanced Options -> User Management (tab)"  page in the StoreGrid webconsole. There you can configure the new password for your logon account under the tab 'Change Password'.

Please refer to the following URL to know more about 'Users Management'; http://www.vembu.com/storegrid/sp-help/PageHelp/user-administration.html

Open ports in your Amazon EC2 instance, port scans of Amazon EC2 instances are generally ineffective because, by default, all inbound ports on Amazon EC2 instances are closed, and are only opened by the customer.  The customer's strict management of security groups can further mitigate the threat of port scans. If the customer configures the security group to allow traffic from any source to a specific port, then that specific port will be vulnerable to a port scan.  AWS further encourages customers to apply additional per-instance filters with host-based firewalls such as IPtables or the Windows Firewall and IPsec. This can restrict both inbound and outbound traffic on each instance.

For further information on AWS Security, please refer http://awsmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/pdf/AWS_Security_Whitepaper.pdf

Does configuring Amazon S3 a pain for you? There is an easy way to backup in cloud using Jungle Disk for only US$2 per month. If you have Rackspace (also known as Mosso) account, don't worry as JungleDisk supports it as well.

Let's first have a look at the Cloud Storage Fees between the 2 main Cloud services:

• Rackspace (formerly called Mosso)
  Storage: $0.15 per GB-Month of storage use
  Data Transfer: No Charge
  Requests: No Charge
• Amazon S3 - US
  Storage: $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used
  Data Transfer: $0.10 per GB of data uploaded; $0.17 per GB of data downloaded
  Requests: $0.01 per 1,000 upload requests; $0.01 per 10,000 download requests
• Amazon S3 - Europe
  Storage: $0.18 per GB-Month of storage used
  Data Transfer: $0.10 per GB of data uploaded; $0.17 per GB of data downloaded
  Requests: $0.012 per 1,000 upload requests; $0.012 per 10,000 download requests