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CloudKick Adds Hybrid On-Premise / Cloud Monitoring

Posted on April 1, 2010 by admin

CloudKick , the cloud monitoring startup has just announced the availability of CloudKick Hybrid. The Hybrid product allows admins to monitor both on-premise and cloud server in a single control panel. CloudKick’s  monitoring  tool is web-based and tracks load, CPU, … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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Cloud Server Monitoring

Posted on March 13, 2010 by admin

Cloud server monitoring  is essential to ensure your server is up and running and performing optimally. The tools to monitor cloud servers range from basic tools to simply check your site is running to those monitoring and diagnosing all aspects … Continue reading →

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Cloud Hosting vs Dedicated Hosting

Posted on March 12, 2010 by admin

The choice between cloud hosting or dedicated hosting often comes down to your requirements for your host, we break this down into the key areas for any hosting solution: Scale – This is probably the biggest single advantage of cloud … Continue reading →

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Using Amazon S3 and CloudFront on WordPress

Posted on March 7, 2010 by admin

For the past six months I have used Amazon Simple Storage Solution (S3) to store all the newly uploaded images on my WordPress installations and it works like a snap. But why should you host all your images on S3 … Continue reading →

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3 Tools to Test and Diagnose Site Performance

Posted on March 7, 2010 by admin

So your site is running a bit slow but you have followed the golden rules or site optimization, how do you find where the bottlenecks are and how to fix them. These tools should help you identify performance issues with … Continue reading →

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