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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….

Undeleting files on NTFS and FAT from a Formatted RAID Array or Hard Drive

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Percy Kwong

It’s happened to all of us every once in a while.  We find ourselves in the situation where we accidently deleted a file.  (Yes, it happens to me too! lol).  Everyone claims to have an undelete program that actually works, but they all vary in their ability to recover a file intact. This is why…

Looking for a PBX? Consider the Cloud.

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Percy Kwong

I’ve spoken of the virtues of a cloud PBX on many an occasion.  The reality is for the last 8 years, I’ve been running my phone system / PBX in a cloud for many reasons.  The most important is redundancy. The system has had no downtime except for when I was applying maintenance upgrades.  My…

So you don’t know your root password for mysql. Getting root control of your mysql server back without having to reset the password.

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Percy Kwong

[singlepic id=57]   This little tidbit is written for Redhat / CentOS, but with a little bit of work, the concepts and commands are easily modified for any flavor of linux. If you’re sitting on a LAMP stack and you’ve had a defection or just haven’t documented your passwords in a safe place, the easiest…

Protecting your family….

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Percy Kwong

Protecting your family from harm, children from abduction, and making sure those you love with Alzheimers are safe.

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