Archive for the ‘Website Hosting’ Category
Friday, May 14th, 2010
This may be of interest to the hardware people here. I am thinking of Jeff, Shane and Jason. You can include yourself if you want.
Citrix XenClient is a bare-metal hypervisor running on desktop PCs using the Intel vPro technology which allows it to create virtual machines taking advantage of 3D and HD graphic [...]
Tags: virtualization
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
A power outage at one of Google’s datacenters took App Engine down for over two hours. Google has provided the details of why it went down for so long and what they’re doing to improve things in the future. Transparent Uptime called their postmortem a “nearly perfect model for others”. Two of their action [...]
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
So here is something that is very helpful. Jason walked me through one particular case that I needed and I thought I’d share it with everyone (including my future self).
Problem: The specific problem was that I needed to change the sytax of SSI when moving a client from Windows to Linux (i.e. IIS [...]
Tags: linux, regex, scripting, search and replace
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Friday, January 29th, 2010
Here’s an important part of the RewriteRule documentation that I didn’t read carefully enough
Tags: apache
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Here is a post that reports that all is not happy for some with their heads in the clouds.
Is Amazon EC2 Oversubscribed and Suffering from Internal Network Latency?
I am not directly involved with this, but figured I’d raise it in the blog.
There have been various reports from the community of Amazon EC2 users, that [...]
Tags: amazon ec2, cloud, cloud computing, cloud hosting
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
In the next installment in its series of cloud computing infrastructure offerings, Amazon announced Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), a cloud version of the popular MySQL database. Following the popular “pay-per-drink” model of EC2 and S3 for selling compute, storage and database access, Amazon RDS gives you a MySQL database that you can spin [...]
Tags: amazon web services, cloud computing, mysql
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Is website speed critical to your business?
Consider: A study has shown that increasing response times by 500ms for Google reduced traffic by 20%. Response time increases of 100ms on Amazon decreased sales by 1%1! These are some pretty amazing figures.
The reason is probably that [...]
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Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Akamai, a content delivery network (CDN), came out with its most recent State of the Internet report, detailing performance in Q1 2009. They do quite a bit of analysis so they usually release the report 4 or 5 months after the end of each quarter.
What is a Content Delivery Network (CDN)?
CDNs contract with website owners [...]
Tags: akamai, cdn, content delivery network, content distribution network, limelight, speed
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
InfoWorld compiles its list of best open source software every year about this time. This is this year’s list. For some reason, likely tied to a misguided attempt to generate more page views, InfoWorld presents the list as a series of slides which load extremely slowly. In this post, I’ve pulled out all of the [...]
Tags: bossies, open source
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
On Thursday, as the world was looking to the internet for information about Michael Jackson, the internet came to a crawl. The initial assumption was that news sites simply weren’t equipped to handle the spike in traffic that such an event would cause. Even Google News flagged the surge as an automated attack. According to [...]
Tags: iframe, iframe widget, michael jackson, performance, widget
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