AWS Data transfer costs can become a massive part of your monthly infrastructure bill if left unchecked. Often, some of the data transfer costs can be reduced or entirely eliminated by understanding what is charged and where and then slightly modifying your infrastructure or application logic. This blog post is meant...
As you already might know, CentOS releases are known to have very long life cycles (usually up to 10 years). However, they are bound to come to their EOL at some point, as is the case with their oldest currently supported release, CentOS 6. CentOS 6 is scheduled to reach EOL...
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...
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...
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...
