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Imagine never having to pay for a server admin

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Percy Kwong

For Small, Medium, and Large Businesses Alike I don’t know if many people realize what my various amazon offerings are so I thought I would spell them out.  The toughest thing to do is not just set up a server, but to set it up correctly and keep it running. By signing up with me,…

SEO Firms (a commentary)

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Percy Kwong

These are just my views about Search Engine Optimization and nothing more.  Search Engine Optimization is important, but you don’t need to pay thousands of dollars for it.  In fact, most SEO firms are a scam.  It’s the cat and mouse game they play with the search engines. So here’s the deal (from my opinion…

Backups: a bit of insight and perspective.

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Percy Kwong

Many of us have backups.  Many of us don’t.  Here’s an interesting question though.  Those of us that have backups.  How many have actually tested them out to make sure they’re working?  If you have, how often do you test them? Most people set up a backup solution and just let it run.  They don’t…

Redundant Application and Database Infrastructures

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Percy Kwong

Most people don’t backup their databases, much less set up redundancy.  It’s an important thing to consider when your application / website just cannot go down. This article discusses what it will take to set up that type of redundancy and I will be following up with a document on how to do it in…

Is Firefox preventing you from going to a website because of the port it’s on? [Solved]

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Percy Kwong

Every once in a while, we need to go to a website that has a non-standard port.  For example, the address might look like this:  https://localhost:888  (This would be for the 3ware management interface for example). In Mozilla Firefox, you’ll get a screen that looks like this: [singlepic id=63] Obviously, this can be a real…

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