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….
Category: Automation
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…
Free Tech Support from me…
OK. I really believe in my project for helping the unemployed, so here’s what I propose. If you donate to my project and of course, get others to donate to my project, I will provide you with free tech support (my skills and advice) for a period of time. Donate: $25.00 you get 1 hour…
I guess this is a call out for help
I’m at the point where I can’t support this blog due to the traffic I’m getting. I really need some donations or something. I’m pushing about 5 GB of data a day and due to my divorce, I can’t afford to support this continually. I’m not asking for donations, although, they would help, but I…
Imagine never having to pay for a server admin
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,…
Are you selling Digital Goods? Software / Services? Affiliate programs are the way to go
I sell products and services on my blog. These products and services pay my bills. The ultimate question is how much can one person sell or better yet, the better question is how much can one salesforce sell? I’ve done extensive research into affiliate programs, but the best way to do things (at least as…
Backups. Being prepared for the restore.
Backups are something that is so important in any system that one should look carefully at not just the backup solution they are using, but the restore solution they’re going to have. Here are my recommendations and views on Backups. 1. Don’t assume that just because you bought a backup package that it just “works”…
When was the last time you had a technology audit?
This is a message to everyone who runs any kind of technology in a business. The posting is directed towards everyone who has their own applications, servers, blogs, websites, etc. Special Note to CIOs/CTOs: I understand you run an organization that has many people under you. I understand that you feel you’ve got your resources…
Fixing Google’s messy index causing 404s due to a “?” in my urls.
As of late, I noticed a problem that just appeared and it wouldn’t go away. It just started showing up and causing tons of 404s on my site. Now that’s not good. The problem was simply the following: I would have a link on my site. Let’s say the real URL is: http://swimminginthought.com/estore For some…
Who Said you needed IIS to Stream Windows Media on Apache [Solved]
So you’ve got tons of windows media files and you need to stream them. The only problem is IIS has tons of overhead and the update headaches of Patches is getting old. So… here’s a quick and easy solution. Once again, I’m going to assume you’re running Centos or Redhat. This applies to any Apache…