In the current global crisis, companies have to cut down costs as much as possible. Laying off employees or overhauling the production process is extremely hard, and not always the best choice. Companies tend to look at non-essentials, where IT infrastructure often falls, especially for non-IT companies. To help you...
Puppet is an open-core configuration management tool that significantly simplifies infrastructure management, especially when sysadmins have to deal with a large number of servers. Essentially, with its declarative language, Puppet allows sysadmins to describe the desired system state in high-level terms - e.g. users, installed packages, enabled services, configuration files, etc. Puppet...
Every website can be categorized as either static or dynamic. In this post, we’re going to define a dynamic website as one that needs server-side processing to function, while a static website as one that serves the same content for all users. Another way of looking at it is that...
HAProxy is a free, open-source, high-performance TCP/HTTP load balancer. HAProxy has been around since 2001, it's written in C programming language, and it uses an insignificant amount of memory and CPU resources, even with very advanced manipulations on HTTP traffic. It's also very secure, having only fifteen security issues during the...
So what is DevOps? In a nutshell, DevOps is a combination of development and operations. So what does that exactly mean? First, it's easier to say what DevOps isn't - it's not a technology, programming language or a standard. Many DevOps supporters will say DevOps is a culture or a movement -...
If you decided it’s time to invest in a new and improved infrastructure, you’re probably wondering how to do a webshop migration without knocking it offline. To help you with this process, we’ve described how we prepare for the webshop migration, what steps do we take to ensure everything goes...
When considering PHP applications monitoring, it’s essential to monitor not only the application itself but the services on which the application depends, as well as the infrastructure hosting the application. Detecting performance bottlenecks and debugging problems can otherwise be very tricky, and unexpected downtime may occur. Infrastructure monitoring Our advanced monitoring system...
Most people are turning to online shopping nowadays, which means your webshop needs to be stable, secure and fast. However, a large number of concurrent users will quickly bring out many (previously undetected) stability issues to the surface. With that in mind, we've decided to write a series of articles which...
If your business is dependent on people moving about, you’re most likely already experiencing consequences of the COVID-19 crisis. Companies are already suffering a drop in sales, and everyone is trying to cope with the current situation. So with that in mind, we’ve prepared a list of things you can...
During the current Coronavirus outbreak, many store owners are wondering how they’ll survive the crisis. Considering many people are currently unable to leave their homes, having an option to shop at home might be the answer. Moving from a brick and mortar store to a webshop might seem like a huge...
