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Wrangling Elephants in the Cloud
You know the elephant in the room, the one no one wants to talk about. Well it turns out there was a whole herd of them hiding in my cloud. There's a herd of them hiding in your cloud too. I'm sure of it. Here is my story and how I learned to wrangle the elephants in the cloud.
Like many of you, my boss walked into my office about three years ago and said "We need to move everything to the cloud." At the time, I wasn't convinced that moving to the cloud had technical merit. The business, on the other hand, had decided that, for whatever reason, it was absolutely necessary.
As I began planning the move, selecting a cloud provider, picking tools with which to manage the deployment, I knew that I wasn't going to be able to provide the same quality of service in a cloud as I had in our server farm. There were too many unknowns.
Save Money on Private SSL CDN and Improve Performance at the Same Time
SSL support in your site, and therefore, in your CDN is critical but it is also incredibly expensive. In this article, I'll show you how to save a fortune while improving the performance and security of your site.
It used to be that sites only encrypted the most sensitive traffic with their customers, i.e. registration, login, checkout, etc. In 2010, the Firesheep extension made it very clear that this is not enough.
Since then, many other attacks on partially encrypted sites have been devised and so major sites like Google, Twitter, Facebook, and others have all switched to HTTPS by default, aka Always On SSL. Last year, Google called for HTTPS everywhere and later, announced that secured sites will get boosts in PageRank.
How to Host a Screaming Fast Site for $0.03/Month
I had an idea. That's always how it starts. Before I know it, I've purchased the domain name and I'm futzing around with some HTML but where am I going to host it and how much is this going to end up costing me?
That's where I was when I came up with#DonateMyFee. "This is a site that is only going to cost me money", I thought to myself (the whole point is for people to donate money rather than paying me). I really didn't want to start shelling out big (or small) bucks on hosting.
Long story short, here is the recipe for a screaming fast website on a low budget: