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News, tutorials, and infrastructure insights from our engineering team
Web Application Firewalls: Protecting Against OWASP Top 10 Threats
How to deploy ModSecurity and the OWASP Core Rule Set to protect web applications from common attack vectors.
Understanding Amazon S3 and Object Storage for Backups
How to leverage Amazon S3 object storage for reliable, cost-effective server backup strategies.
Server Monitoring with Nagios: Alerting Before Problems Become Outages
How to deploy Nagios for comprehensive server monitoring with effective alerting that catches issues before they impact customers.
Rackspace Cloud Launch and the Growing Cloud Hosting Market
How Rackspace and other providers are expanding the cloud hosting market beyond Amazon's early dominance.
Optimizing WordPress Performance on Shared Hosting
Practical tips for making WordPress sites load faster on shared hosting without needing to upgrade to a VPS.
MySQL Master-Slave Replication: Setup, Monitoring, and Failover
A comprehensive guide to setting up MySQL master-slave replication with monitoring best practices and failover procedures.
Version Control for Infrastructure: Managing Configs with Subversion
How to use Subversion for version-controlling server configurations as part of an infrastructure-as-code approach.
Configuring Windows Network Load Balancing for IIS Web Farms
A guide to setting up Windows Network Load Balancing for distributing web traffic across multiple IIS servers.
Building a High-Availability Web Stack with Heartbeat and DRBD
How to build a Linux high-availability cluster using Heartbeat and DRBD for automatic failover of web services.