Servers & Cloud Category
Rietta's server and cloud posts cover AWS EC2 swap files, parsing Apache access logs from the command line, and shorter SSL/TLS certificate lifetimes.
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04/22/2025
Shorter SSL/TLS Lifetimes: Business Impact of Monthly Certificate Renewals
by Frank Rietta
New SSL/TLS rules mean monthly renewals by 2029. Understand the downtime risk and how to prepare your business.
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06/03/2024
The UniSuper/Google Lesson: Cloud is Not a Backup!
by Frank Rietta
Google deleted all the data and backups of a $135 BILLION pension fund! Lessons learned about backup and recovery, with practical tips for a 3-2-1 backup plan.
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06/04/2020
Swap Files and AWS - Extending Your EC2 Free Tier Instance Memory
by Chris Davis
Staying within the AWS free tier can be a challenge for research projects. A swapfile can mitigate memory issues without upgrading to a larger EC2 instance.
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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.
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09/10/2012
Using IPTABLES to Require CloudFlare for All HTTP/HTTPS Traffic
by Frank Rietta
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