Archive for the ‘Website Hosting’ Category
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
http://m.news.com/2166-12_3-10214663-2.html
Prior to this they have only supported Python, a language with a far more limited following. Here’s the rundown:
Supports JDK 1.6.
Free for limited use, no ability to pay for heavier use yet
Can access data behind the firewall through Secure Data Connect
Supports cron and data import ability
Uses BigTable (key/value pairs) for storage, so can’t use JDBC. [...]
Tags: cloud, google app engine, platforms
Posted in Java, Solutions, Technology, Website Hosting | No Comments »
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Google launched a new project under Google Code where they are hosting the 5 popular javascript libraries for anyone to include in their site. The thinking is that by having a bunch of websites link against a common location for their javascript libraries the user’s browser can cache it once and use the cached copy, [...]
Tags: browser cache, google, JavaScript
Posted in JavaScript, Solutions, Technology, Website Hosting | 3 Comments »
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
While researching platforms for hosting services I read a good deal about virtualization. For those of us who are mostly unfamiliar with the topic, virtualization, in short, is the abstraction of computing resources (which lends to the “cloud computing” concept). In more general use, it usually conjures up the idea that you can [...]
Tags: openvz, virtualization
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
I was looking into Apache log rotation schemes and here’s what I came up with. Note that this is specifically for a Linux system.
- http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/rotatelogs.html
This is the Apache docs for a program called ‘rotatelogs’ which comes with Apache. It replaces the default specification of the log file as a pipe to a rotatelogs [...]
Tags: apache, log files
Posted in Solutions, Website Hosting | 3 Comments »
Monday, April 21st, 2008
Chi-Ming & I attended the Rackspace Roadshow on Thursday, April 17th. This was chance for Rackspace to present their technology roadmap for the next year or so. Rackspace’s main business is providing managed hosting. A client would specify a build of a server which they would build or purchase, configure and install [...]
Tags: amazon ec2, cloud, mosso, rackspace
Posted in Solutions, Web Applications, Website Hosting | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Have you checked out the app engine?
http://code.google.com/appengine/
Google is providing web app hosting for Python based apps. There are a few limitations on what you can do (like no writing to disk, no relational database), but it’s free.
They say they hope to add support for more languages in the future, but I don’t expect to see [...]
Tags: google app engine
Posted in Solutions, Technology, Web Applications, Website Hosting | 3 Comments »
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Previously, they only supported DNS-mapped dynamic addresses. Now they’re static. See below.
Dear Amazon EC2 Developer,
This is a quick note to let you know about some exciting changes with Amazon EC2. We are happy to announce two significant new features – Elastic IP Addresses and Availability Zones – which help you to run reliable web sites [...]
Tags: amazon ec2, web services
Posted in Browsers, Solutions, Web Design, Website Hosting | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
This URL below has small RPMs that install a repo definition into yum for using the RPM-Forge repositories. For example, I could not get pgadmin3 in the standard CentOS repos and I wanted to avoid installing it by hand. So I downloaded rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm from the URL below and installed it. Then [...]
Tags: linux centos
Posted in Solutions, Website Hosting | 2 Comments »
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
GRand Unified Bootloader is a Linux-world boot loader, though it can boot any OS you can fit on a drive. Its great for choosing between Windows and Linux on dual boot machines and choosing between different kernels on a given Linux system… you could even use it for booting between different Windows instances.
Anyhow… your [...]
Tags: booting, grub, linux, mbr, sysadmin
Posted in Solutions, Website Hosting | 1 Comment »
Friday, January 18th, 2008
Suppose that you have an online store that sells Books, Music, and Movies. And suppose that you wanted to use Google Analytics and have separate reports that showed each department exclusive of the others, and you wanted a report that showed your site as a whole. How would you do this?
Google Analytics has [...]
Tags: analytics, reports, statistics
Posted in Analytics & Web Measurement, Solutions, Website Hosting | No Comments »