The more we have gained experience on the OpenStack platform, the more we began wondering how large of a Rackspace cloud we could build on re-sold enterprise level hardware. This would be perfect for POC (proof of concept) labs, R&D computing development, or even a small office computing cloud. The […]
Recently we were working on a software integration project, whereby we were migrating a php based application onto a CentOS system from an Ubuntu system. The platform requires the ability to call out to GPG and decrypt certain text elements as part of its “data at rest” encryption policy. Prior […]
After performing a performance analysis on one of our client’s enterprise magento websites, we noticed that their .HTACCESS file was very large compared to what we typically see. Upon closer examination we noticed that there were more than 400+ redirects and re-writes that had been carried over from their previous […]
A client asked us how we could back-port a small database from MSSQL2012 database back to a MSSQL 2008 database. We know there is direct method of doing this, other than through an obscure process called “Generate Scripts”. Essentially, it exports the database objects as SQL scripts, that are generic […]
Apparently there was some sort of global attack against a variety of hosting providers last night (4/11/2013) targetting users of WordPress. The massive botnet attack targeted WordPress accounts and went directly after the login screen. The performance degradation you experienced today was caused by a global attack against websites running the […]
The Magento ecommerce system is a very complicated architecture, fraught with hardware and software tuning, caching systems, and database tuning. On a dedicated server, this can be a challenge to manage on a day to day basis. Moving it to the cloud presents a whole set of factors that will […]
