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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.

January 08, 2015

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:

December 31, 2014

Recently I started using SmartSVN running remotely on a Solaris 10 server and displaying on my Windows XP machine via Xming (the free Xserver). I quickly ran into some performance and usability issues which I hope to have solved.

November 18, 2009

Someone currently building an internal development environment required some integration between servers using SSH and the webservd user.

He came to me when he saw that the default home directory for the webservd user is /.  He didn't want to create a /.ssh/authorized_keys file and I didn't blame him. My first reaction was to change the home directory but I didn't want to break something so I opened up Google and found something incredible.

DISCLAIMER: The following is quoted from documentation at docs.sun.com (emphasis is mine). I do not recommend you actually listen to it's instructions:

November 16, 2009

Recently I've been migrating my old Blogger content to WordPress. I've been considering this ever since Blogger announced it's new layout / format which required hosting the blog on their servers. Finally I found the energy to tackle the beast but quickly hit my first obstacle- how to import the old Blogger posts.

If you haven't already, you must be using New Blogger and a Google Account on Blogger. If you are still using Old Blogger, the importer will not work. - http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content

Importing from my old Atom or RSS feeds didn't work.

Importing from a Blogger export file didn't work either.

Finally I found a solution which worked for the most part.

November 09, 2009