Archive for November, 2011

Cloud admin on 08 Nov 2011

Dealing with MySQL issues in the Cloud: Automating restart on error

MySQL is the mainstay of most Cloud Applications (including this WordPress Blog !), however if MySQL has an issue, either through number of connections maxing out, or MySQL being locked and not available it can result in site outages. We’ve seen clients who have ended up with their SQL DB down from a couple of [...]

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Cloud and SaaS admin on 05 Nov 2011

Using the Power of Cloud Computing with SaaS Services

We recently started documenting the services we use on a day-to-day basis and it struck us just how much we use SaaS and Cloud Computing services. To that end we thought it would be fun / beneficial to share some of these and how and why we use them: File Server: SMEStorage We use SkyDrive [...]

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