For the past couple of years I have been hosting with Hostgator. I was a happy customer until the acquisition by EIG. In the past 2 months my blog was down for almost two days. I really wanted another cheap and best solution for hosting my website. Another thing is the response time has gone… Continue reading Easy, Cheap and Robust Cloud Hosting Solution from Digital Ocean
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Imthiaz’s Blog powered by Amazon CloudFront
I have been experimenting with Amazon Web Services for sometime. I was successful in offloading media traffic with the help of Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront plugin for WordPress. But it was never enough. Please don’t think my blog traffic is very high, but this is the only website I have with which I could… Continue reading Imthiaz’s Blog powered by Amazon CloudFront
AWS – Adding extra EBS volume to your EC2 instance
When you boot an Amazon Linux EC2 instance it boots with a 8GB EBS volume. If you need more space you need to add additional drives. This article can help with that…
VirtualBox web interface with phpVirtualBox
This weekend I had some time to spend with VirtualBox. VirtualBox is a cross-platform virtualization application. This helps you to run various operating system as virtual machine. This is the concept that is adapted by most of the companies which offer us cloud computing. Recently I came to know that VirtualBox has built in Web… Continue reading VirtualBox web interface with phpVirtualBox
WordPress S3 plugin updated to 1.1 Alpha
Past couple of days I have been focusing hard to optimize my blog. Related to this I have been working on the next version of s3 plugin. This version supports the following Uploads any media file in the blog to a CDN Support for cloudfront Expire headers Support for CSS and JS compression Dynamic Cache… Continue reading WordPress S3 plugin updated to 1.1 Alpha