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A Perfect Example of Disaster Recovery in the Cloud

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Percy Kwong

Netflix went down yesterday due to power problems at Amazon’s Virginia Datacenter.  This of course caused an outage for some of Amazon’s EC2 customers. (Like Netflix).   This is a perfect example of why Redundancy in the cloud is important. All of my customers (some of them at EC2 Virginia) stayed up and available.  How?  Redundancy….

Fixing Live WordPress Install without downtime [Solved – A Solution]

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Percy Kwong

I love wordpress.  It’s simple and very powerful.  The only problem with it is the quality of the plugins and the constant upgrading.  Like Microsoft Windows, sooner or later, something is going to break.  Of course, I didn’t notice it until just recently. On my blog (This blog), the newsfeeds broke.  I really don’t know…

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