Monthly Archives: March 2010

Windows Azure WrapUp

Posted on March 30, 2010 by admin

Windows Azure is just 2 months old and there are still a lot of unknowns regarding it. A couple of articles which might help clear some things up: A detailed review of Windows Azure. A pricing comparison between Azure and … Continue reading →

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Windows License Mobility for EC2 [News]

Posted on March 26, 2010 by admin

Microsoft and Amazon announced Windows License Mobility which allows enterprise license holders to migrate their licenses to Amazon’s EC2 instances. The program is currently running only as a pilot and Microsoft only allows the license to be used for Windows … Continue reading →

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Akamai Announces Akamai Download Analytics [News]

Posted on March 24, 2010 by admin

Akamai, the leading CDN vendor, just announced the introduction of the Akamai Download Analytics. Getting useful data on files served over CDN’s has long been a pain-point for CDN users. Akamai Download Analytics hopes to address this by providing the … Continue reading →

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Rackspace Cloud Servers to Offer Oracle [News]

Posted on March 24, 2010 by admin

Rackspace just announced that its offer Oracle on its Cloud Servers product. AWS has had Oracle offerings for some time now and the announcement by Rackspace is clearly a move into the enterprise market which is a major target of … Continue reading →

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Website Migration Checklist

Posted on March 22, 2010 by admin

Over the years I think I have migrated about 30 sites (normally to different CMS platforms) and there are always unique issues involved in every migration. Although each migration is unique there are some common issues that need to be … Continue reading →

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10 Best Practices to Speed Up Your Site – Part II

Posted on March 19, 2010 by admin

Continuing from Speed up Your Site Part I : 6. Minimize Hits to the Database Why is caching so effective? It reduces requests to both the server for processing and to the database for data. Database operations are very expensive … Continue reading →

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Cloud Computing Economics

Posted on March 17, 2010 by admin

Great video from James Hamilton of AWS demonstrating the eocnomics of data centers and cloud computing. Ever wonder where the cost is consumed or why cloud computing is more efficient. Did you know that power is only 13% of the … Continue reading →

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What is Time to Live ( TTL ) ? [FAQ]

Posted on March 15, 2010 by admin

Time to Live or TTL is the time a file is cached on at a CDN ‘edge’ location. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) work by caching files at numerous world edge locations, when a file is requested for the first time … Continue reading →

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Content Delivery Networks ( CDN ) Pricing Comparison

Posted on March 15, 2010 by admin

Contend Delivery Networks (CDN s) pricing is typically broken into bandwidth tiers plus a  charge separate storage charge. To simplify comparison I have used the base bandwidth and storage of each plan for the CDN’s which publish pricing, others such … Continue reading →

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Content Delivery Network ( CDN ) Tutorial

Posted on March 14, 2010 by admin

So you’re convinced that a Content Delivery Network ( CDN ) would be a huge benefit to your site (if you’re still on the fence just read this first) and you are unsure of how to integrate it. How to … Continue reading →

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