Winning the Spam Fight
For those of us still mired in the modes of communication of the previous century, email is still our primary method of communication. And the bane of all email users is now, and probably forever will be, spam. In this post, I discuss spam problems and solutions as pertaining to Linux-based servers running WHM/cpanel. I find it interesting that the discussion of how to best deal with spam is...
Read MoreIs My Server Secure?
If you are a sysadmin or if configuring Linux servers is part of your job description, you’ve probably been asked to set up all kinds of software packages under tight deadlines and cost constraints. After you installed mail, DNS, MySQL, Apache, and your application stack was up and running, you might have briefly paused to wonder, “is my server secure?” It’s a very...
Read MoreUnderstanding the Cloud – Saas, Paas and IaaS
The infographic below by the Horn Group gives a good visual overview of the differences between SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, and the various vendors in those markets right now Think of it as a snapshot, as if you’re looking at a photo of the night sky — the sky will look different tomorrow night…and 3 months from now. The internet changes quickly. Cloud vendors will continue to come...
Read MoreSMB Cloud Computing Trends
Small and mid-sized businesses in the market for custom software are flocking to the Public IaaS cloud space — like Amazon or Rackspace –in larger numbers than enterprise users, according to Forrester Research. One of the reasons is that corporate IT departments are slower to make decisions because of their hierarchy. IT managers often need to spend weeks or months developing...
Read MoreAmazon Cloud Computing Solutions
Amazon’s Cloud services are a veritable alphabet soup of acronyms. Let Boomcycle provide Amazon Acronym Assistance! If you’ve ever owned a dilapidated old car or if you’ve been forced to travel a lot for work, then you probably know how the venerable American Automobile Association can be a real life saver. I once owned a 1987 Honda Prelude with a list of mechanical problems...
Read MoreClient Solutions in the Rackspace Cloud
Some months back we posted an article about one of our favorite things: Helping Websites Grow. The issue at hand back in March was that our client had a server that was struggling to serve large amounts of images while at the same time trying to make sure that Gigabytes of images were backed up regularly. The system was also struggling to import remote image assets quickly enough. There...
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