Here’s the scenario. You’ve got a dedicated server running windows in a server farm (generic dedicated server provider). You have mysql + asp or php app running all on the same server. Raid 1 mirroring and 2 GB of ram. You have to have windows, because your application supports it. Sound Familiar? It’s a problem…
Author: Percy Kwong
International Text solutions – A solution
The thing that kills me more than anything is the International Texting thing today. You get charged upwards of .50 to text international. So here’s the solution for all of you people out there. Skype. Just install skype and register your cell phone number to it. (requires validation, but worth it). When you need to…
A Perfect Example of Disaster Recovery in the Cloud
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….
VOIP Tunneling with SBO or OpenVPN?
There seems to be much talk these days of tunneling and Voice-Over-IP(VOIP) most of it for the singular purpose of keeping the communications secure or hidden from the nasty overlords of the Internet. There seems to be two camps in this and two main technologies. Session Bandwidth Optimization and OpenVPN. Both do similar things, but…
The Browser Wars; Which One is Best?
I’ve always believed competition is good. It breed ingenuity, evolution, and value for the customer. Mostly, it comes in the form of price and features. There has always been one special niche of the competitive space I’ve always found interesting; The Web Browser. When they first came out, they went from free to pay to…
Backing Down from WordPress 3.4 to 3.3.2 [solution]
This post assumes you’re running CentOS. So modify the commands accordingly. I also assume you have your wordpress install in /var/www/something.com After a bit of a while I finally decided to take the leap again to WordPress 3.4 from 3.3.2 only to be disappointed again. There are still some issues they need to work out….
Nuveum offers Free High Performance Virtual Server for donating
It would seem that my Startsomegood.com project for helping the Unemployed is starting to gain some traction. Our first corporate Donator not only donated to the campaign, but decided to add an extra reward to my project. For anybody donating $10.00 or more, to the project for helping the unemployed, they get a free High-Performance…
The Virtual Webtop – A different type of experience
The Term Webtop has been a long time, but has been a fledgeling technology that has failed to take off. The reality is the technology wasn’t ready. In my honest opinion, the original creators had the right idea, but they got the whole concept wrong. So here’s where I’ve come to think about it on…
True Dynamic Path Routing
Everybody talks about BGP and assumes it’s as easy as just simply routing out the internet gateway. This is what most ISPs and Cloud providers do is just advertise their paths. A truly high-performance cloud provider will have multiple connections to multiple backbones and use ToS and try special paths to certain IPs. This is…
What happened to “Human” in Humanity?
I really do need to ask this question. I appreciate my followers and yes, they’re a loyal bunch. I do need to EVERYBODY one question and everyone on the Internet. We all go about our lives. We see the homeless person at the exit ramp, on the sidewalk, etc. Granted a lot of them are…