I am at Drupal Conference attending the Acquia Apache Solr presentation. This integration has a lot of promise in my opinion. The drupal search is not that useful, we’ve actually replaced drupal search on our implementations with google custom search. Apache Solr is an open source project: Solr is an open source enterprise search server [...]
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We’ve been investigating the possibilities of using cloud computing for our clients. Especially Amazon EC2 has the potential to be be really effective in offering flexible, pay-as-you-go computing. From my own perspective I have been looking at how to use cloud computing in combination with MySQL and I must say that I’m a bit sceptical [...]
So a couple of weeks ago I touted the AdBard folks and their FLOSS oriented ad network system. Today we received the following email from them. What is worse, is that the ads have already stopped appearing on the site. . It looks like they will be teaming up with Free Software Foundation. Hello, This [...]
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When I started working in systems, one of my first client was a major bank. Yes, this was back in the mainframe batch processing days. They never did any system updates when they ran the month end, quarter end and especially year end. I always thought that they just weren’t confident in their system folks [...]
E-commercre Report; Several of the most popular online merchants have struggled to cope with the heavy holiday traffic, a survey shows. Ok, that was NYTimes 2003 – what about now? This season there have already been several announcements of ecommerce snafus. Sears.com site shut down for a couple of hours and there have even [...]
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Looking back it seems like most posts on this blog are helpful tips and not reports of problems we encountered. Not that we don’t have any problems but we mostly report our solutions instead of the actual problems. Of course now and again a problem comes along that doesn’t have a solution ready to copy-paste [...]
The 2008 Internet Security Report put out by Arbor Networks has this eye popping blurb… Attacks Now Exceed 40 Gigabits …the largest DDoS attacks have now grown a hundredfold to break the 40 gigabit barrier this year. The growth in attack size continues to significantly outpace the corresponding increase in underlying transmission speed and ISP [...]
Within a week I had seen the term DOS or Denial of Service being mentioned in two mainstream publications, the WJS and more recently in this article – Internet Attacks Grow More Potent - by the Wall Street Journal. “We’re definitely seeing more targeted attacks toward e-commerce sites,” said Danny McPherson, chief security officer for [...]
A client had asked us a very innocent question about bandwidth usage “What will my average cost of video download be?”. This question lead me down a path of assumptions and translations of different bandwidth terminologies which would make sense to someone without having to learn how to convert binary and calculate video compressions. This [...]
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Issue: Apache does not start, gives the following error 965 File size limit exceeded$HTTPD -DSSL Cause: Apache Log or Domain Log file exceeded 2GB Solution: Rotate offending log file by tar/gzip’ing
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