Servers & Cloud Category
Addressing server administration, cloud services, and hosting.
06/03/2024
The UniSuper/Google Lesson: Cloud is Not a Backup!
by Frank Rietta
Learn from Google deleting all the data and backups of a $135 BILLION pension fund! Explore the lessons learned about backup and recovery and some practical tips for a 3-2-1 backup plan.
06/04/2020
Swap Files and AWS - Extending Your EC2 Free Tier Instance Memory
by Chris Davis
For research projects and other non-critical applications hosted on AWS, staying within the free tier of AWS services can be a challange. Adding a swapfile can be a way to mitigate memory issues while not needing to upgrade to a larger EC2 instance.
02/22/2014
Find Top Referral Sources with Raw Apache Access Log
by Frank Rietta
The easy raw to find your website referrers (HTTP referer) from a raw Apache access file with grep, sort, and uniq on the command line.