Saturday's Sunset
I don't know about where you live, but here the sun sets pretty much every day. Granted it sometimes does so behind a veil of grey or in the total absence of cloud it just disappears without the slightest hint of pomp and ceremony.
We are blessed, however, here in Canterbury with a reasonable number of stunning sunsets, along with the one at the beginning of the day. What's the name of that one? Sunlift? Sunclimb? Not sure. I'm not really a morning person, but I'm sure you know what I'm on about.
I'm a sucker for a good sunset as much as the next bloke, although in truth it's the cloudscape I'm after when I venture off into...
Tags: Security in the cloud, KISS
The second article in a series on using cloud computing services.
The idea of keeping things simple when it comes to server security is not at all radical and cloud servers provide the ability to reach the not so lofty goal of keeping your servers simple and secure without breaking the bank.
The theory is simple: The smaller the number of processes you have running on your box the less there is to go wrong, or attack. This is one area where...
Working on a cloud
This blog is now coming to you from a cloud. A rackspace cloud server that is. Two of them in fact, the front end server running the CMS, and the back-end MySQL server.
The concept of cloud computing really isn't all that new, but if you're all at sea when it comes to clouds you might want to toodle over to Wikipedia and read about it there.
The service I'm using is probably better described as cloud provisioning, in that I've got two virtual servers living somewhere in the bowels of the Rackspace data centre. I don't have to care about memory sizing, disk space, network infrastructure, or anything else for that matter, I'm just renting some resources out of the cloud.
I picked how much memory and disk space I wanted in a few clicks then before the kettle had time to boil the server was on line and ready for configuration. If this service was available back when I was running a hosting business I'd probably still be....
Yahoo plus Bing, strange bedfellows
The news that Bing is set to become the search engine behind Yahoo is quite old now. The ten year deal between number two and three in the battle for search dominance was cut back in July this year.
There's nothing too strange about Microsoft and Yahoo doing business together on the face of it, this came a bit of a year after a failed attempt by the Seattle software hawkers to buy out Yahoo lock stock and flickr pages for a cool $44.6 Billion in change.
What is strange is the positioning of Bing search results in the Yahoo pages.
Existing Yahoo search users have made a concious effort to not....
