The table below helps illustrate why you should ensure that the “SLA Uptime Measurement Meter Reset Window” is the same duration as your billing cycle or shorter. Availability % Downtime per year Downtime per month (30 days) Downtime per week Downtime per day 90 “one nine” 36.5 days 72 hours 16.8 hours 2.4000 hours 95… Continue reading Understanding SLA Uptime Percentages
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How to Avoid Duplicate Search Results when using Apple Mail.app with Gmail
I use Gmail’s IMAP feature with my Apple Mac OS’s built in Mail.app program. Mail.app keeps local copies (on all my personal Macs) of all my email messages that I’ve kept (since 1994). It enables me to: Effectively work offline with all my emails (searching, reading and composing), when my computer is not online. That’s… Continue reading How to Avoid Duplicate Search Results when using Apple Mail.app with Gmail
Checklist for Migration of Web Application from Traditional Hosting to Cloud
In 2010, Cloud Computing is likely to see increasing adoption. Migrating Web applications from one data center to another is a complex project. To assist you in migrating Web applications from your hosting facilities to cloud hosting solutions like Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure or RackSpace’s Cloud offerings, I’ve published a set of checklists for migrating… Continue reading Checklist for Migration of Web Application from Traditional Hosting to Cloud
Save Money On Hosting & CDN By Optimizing Your Architecture & Applications
If you manage technology for a company that has a large Web presence, it is likely that a large percentage of your total technology costs is spent on the Web hosting environment, including the Content Delivery Network (CDN, e.g. Akamai, LimeLight, CDNetworks, Cotendo). In this article, we discuss some ways to manage these costs. Before… Continue reading Save Money On Hosting & CDN By Optimizing Your Architecture & Applications
Save Your Company Money In Monthly Bills Using Browser Caching
Companies that operate heavily trafficked Web sites can save thousands of dollars every month by maximizing their use of browser-side caching. Large Web sites pay for bandwidth at their Web hosting data center and also at their content delivery network (CDN, e.g. Akamai, LimeLight, CDNetworks). Bandwidth costs add up to huge monthly bills. On small-business… Continue reading Save Your Company Money In Monthly Bills Using Browser Caching
Using Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) with an EC2 Instance
One of the differences between Amazon EC2 server instances and normal servers is that the server’s local disk storage state (i.e. changes to data) on EC2 instances does not persist over instance shutdowns and powering on. This was mentioned in my earlier post about hosting my Web site on Amazon EC2 and S3, Therefore, it… Continue reading Using Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) with an EC2 Instance
I now use a device called Drobo for storing data at my home network (Product Review)
I now use a device called Drobo (2nd generation), manufactured by Data Robotics, Inc. as the primary data storage and backup medium at my home location. I have attached it via a USB 2.0 cable to my Apple Airport Extreme wireless network router. The Airport Extreme enables me to share USB 2.0 based storage devices… Continue reading I now use a device called Drobo for storing data at my home network (Product Review)
Future of Content Management for News Media for Web sites
Content on Web sites should be managed using systems that were designed from the ground up for the Web. Traditional content management systems with a legacy of features and workflows used for paper-based print products like newspapers and magazines are unsuitable for Web sites. The future of news media content management for Web sites is… Continue reading Future of Content Management for News Media for Web sites
Social Graphs API: WordPress Plugin: Blogroll Links
If you already know what the Social Graph API and XFN are, you can skip the background information and go directly to the Blogroll Links plugin for WordPress that is designed to work with these. Update: 2010-Feb-20: Version 2 of the Blogroll Links plugin for WordPress uses the Shortcode API and so introduces a new… Continue reading Social Graphs API: WordPress Plugin: Blogroll Links
This Web Site is Now Hosted on Amazon EC2 & S3
This web site, http://www.rajiv.com is now hosted on Amazon.com’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3) services. They are part of Amazon Web Services offerings. If you are a technologist, I recommend EC2 and S3. To learn more about them, you can follow the links in this article. Benefits of hosting a Web… Continue reading This Web Site is Now Hosted on Amazon EC2 & S3
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