Cloud admin on 07 Aug 2012
We recently had a customer that was migrating from one DNS provider to another due to large outages from their existing supplier ie. a failure to keep their DNS services working correctly. They went ahead and migrated by changing their A Record and MX records for their domain/ sub-domains and only contacted us when they [...]
Cloud and NoSQL admin on 29 Mar 2012
We recently did some tests with regards to replacing an existing MySQL implementation with MongoDB. I thought some of the tests would be interesting to share. MySQL ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.27, for Win32 (ia32) MongoDB v2.0.4 for Win32 (journaling not enabled) The test was centred around a table that has 400000 records with numbered names [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 25 Mar 2012
Musing about iCloud, the forthcoming SkyDrive integration into Windows 8, and Google Drive got me thinking about DropBox, the company whose business model is built on charging when everyone else is starting to give large amounts of storage away for free. DropBox killer feature is their sync replication. It just works, and consumers have shown [...]
Cloud and PaaS admin on 16 Mar 2012
Looking to implement a PaaS. Wondering what product to start with or how they compare ? Well, there may not be an App for that but there is a collaborative spreadsheet. To view the spreadsheet directly on Google Docs click here (it seems Google only supports 50 concurrent connections of a spreadsheet so if you [...]
Cloud admin on 11 Mar 2012
The decline of MegaUpload and the rumours that the FBI has another hotlist of sites to go after has left other file sharing services running for their proverbial lives, with legitimate services often deciding to remove public file sharing from their own services, despite arguments that the MegaUpload “bust” has done little to reduce internet [...]
Cloud admin on 08 Nov 2011
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 [...]
Cloud and SaaS admin on 05 Nov 2011
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: StorageMadeEasy We use SkyDrive [...]
Amazon Web Services and Cloud admin on 17 Sep 2011
The Amazon Cloud has now classed as being FISMA certified. FISMA is an acronym for Federal Information Security Management Act. FISMA sets security requirements for federal IT systems. and is a required certification for US federal government projects. This is the third set of certifications Amazon has recently announced coming on top of VPC ISO [...]
Cloud admin on 17 Jun 2011
One of the interesting things that about the last 12-18 months is how the Cloud has put the power into the hands of consumers. What I mean by this is, imagine the following scenario in the world pre-cloud: “A user buys some software over the Internet or Shrink wrapped. They receive it and install it. [...]
Cloud and Google admin on 21 Mar 2011
Recently we had a customer contact us who had been using Google Checkout to sell an Android application. The customer logged into their Merchant account as they are prone to do each morning to be confronted with “Your merchant Account has been closed” with some templated details about why this could be the case. No [...]
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