Archives for April 2014

Memcached Configuration & Optimization for Rackspace Cloud Server Guides To Tune CPU and RAM Expensive Queries to be Served from the Cache. Memcached is more harder to properly nicely configure than you can think. Many parameters of the setup need to be known for Memcached. We basically started from a very cost effective solution - How to Install WordPress on Rackspace Cloud Server (Ubuntu … [Read more...]

Cloud computing, no longer just a buzzword, but it has established itself over the years as a serious technology for the provision of infrastructure, platforms and applications. Cloud computing cow offers industry specific cloud solution for certain services. The end-users, for example, have the opportunity to outsource the data previously stored locally in the cloud and the advantage of this, … [Read more...]

Here is a list of Free Web Hosting Control Panel either with GNU GPL License or Open Source Compatible License which can run on Cloud IaaS. Some of them have dubious License, in case you are using for Commercial purpose, you must convert it to BSD Clause 2 License on your own repository and then add either Apache License or GNU GPL 3.0 License. It is a moral crime to use a restrictive license. … [Read more...]

RESTful API for WordPress Can Enable Many Features to a Website Like We Can Fetch Data for Facebook Page from Widget via HTTP GET Request. Previously, we explained Why Your Cloud Based App Needs API and if you are not sure what is REST API or Representational State Transfer API, you must read the linked article first. We have a nice tool named CocoaRestClient which can test your App's response. As … [Read more...]

Rackspace Cloud Database is an excellent product for WordPress which not only can increase the performance but also secures the installation. Rackspace Cloud Database is intended for fully advanced UNIX users if unmanaged plan is used or if you are using managed level, you need not to think about anything. We are telling you why this Rackspace Cloud Database is better option over having 2 MySQL … [Read more...]

Two-Factor Authentication is important thing today. Definitely we will avoid a Third Party Service Provider Like Google for OpenStack Cloud. Right now; Authentication as a Service (AaaS), Logging as a Service (LaaS) are part of core corporate strategies and Cloud Computing Risk Analysis is definitely important today. In the colorful light of PRISM like Governmental Spyware Activities and their … [Read more...]

Tweak MySQL my.cnf using Major Hayden's MySQL Tuner Script. Major Hayden is Chief Security Architect and a Linux engineer at Rackspace. In the previous guide on Optimizing MySQL Database Performance, we tweaked manually and added the last chunk of text : DO NOT try to optimize MySQL in Rackspace Deployment. They are fully optimized. There is a Perl script for MySQL Tuning, do not use it for PVHVM … [Read more...]