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Particularly since the introduction of Glacier, S3 from Amazon is quite attractive as an offsite backup offering (archive the backups to Glacier automatically after, say, a week with lifecycle management and your storage costs drop dramatically). Of course we still have to keep an eye on our data transfer costs. There are two possible candidates … Read more
Because you just should. Gone are the days of SecureID OTP tokens costing an arm and a leg, and being just for Enterprise. My own WP site here is protected with Google Authenticator, and there is no excuse for not doing the same on yours. Just grab the awesome WP Google Authenticator plugin and you will … Read more
Anyone who has worked with me in the past couple of years will know that I have a very strong preference for recommending Amazon AWS as your IaaS provider of choice. It is mature, robust, performant, and has a whole raft of PaaS type features to make things easy and lower the sysadmin burden/requirement. It … Read more
I have been working with IT in one way or another since learning BASIC and 8086 assembler aged 8. My interest really took off when I experienced SunsOS 4.1.3, TCP-IP and the fledgling Internet in the very early 90s and the University of Brunel where I studied Engineering. Having worked a lot of my career … Read more
Some days you need to get user input from a bit of an HTML form that wasn’t really designed for it, in order to get a great UX. This means that the input get’s passed around through JS, AJAX, PHP and goodness only knows what before it turns up in the right place. How do … Read more
I’ve neer been an enormous fan of WHM, in the long run it pays to know what you are doing. Still it does have a very useful role to play, even if some of the things it does just seem plain strange. Yes EasyApache does give enormous flexibility, but so do the vendor provided packages. … Read more
I did mention that my varnish 4.0 configuration was pretty much out of the box here. Well, there are some things that can come back to bite you when you copy’n’paste stuff that you find with google. One client was very patient with me today whilst some serious head scratching happened today whilst we tried … Read more
Well I’ve taken the plunge and upgraded to Varnish 4.0 in front of this WP site. It’s early days to draw any firm conclusions, but I shall be monitoring the impact closely. If anything it seems to have slightly reduced my page load times (yay!) without having to implement any of the “Special” VCL logic that … Read more
Here’s a little page that shows the kind of all important page load times that the search engines rank so highly. Very much work in progress especially on the mobile side, but it was certainly time for some dog food…… Rating
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