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CSS3 Webkit Blink Animation

We can use CSS3 Webkit blink animation to emphasize a phrase or sentence to draw attention or can use on pure CSS logo. No Javascript needed. RedHat OpenShift has an effect - we gave some idea in our older guide on creating Spinning Logo for WordPress Genesis Framework and Other Themes. Spinning logo required a library, but blink animation will not require anything more than CSS.   CSS3 … [Read more...]

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OpenStack Marconi : Basic Guide For Cloud Queue

OpenStack Marconi and Zaqar is a multi-tenant cloud messaging service. It has semantics to support event broadcasting and has RESTful API. Previously, we talked about Rackspace Cloud Queue, PUSH Technology and practical example of Push with unrelated service - OpenShift Hosted AeroGear. Here is a basic guide to OpenStack Marconi, which possibly will help some starters.   OpenStack Marconi … [Read more...]

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CORS Header in Rackspace Cloud Files

This guide shows how to set CORS Header in Rackspace Cloud Files to Allow or Restrict usage over HTTPS protocol and how to get the headers. We talked about CORS in a previously published article. We can set CORS Header in Rackspace Cloud Files on individual files as well as container (quite difficult method) and purge the file, cURL to check the headers.   CORS Header in Rackspace Cloud … [Read more...]

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Who Should Use Bare Metal and Who Cloud Platform

Who Should Use Bare Metal and Who Cloud Platform? Definitely there should be should be some logical criterion to choose the right platform. Our reference Bare Metal is Rackspace OnMetal® and Cloud Platform is by any giants - preferably running OpenStack Cloud Computing Software. 128 GB Bare Metal can cost the same like a Cloud Server instance. Basic difference is in usage. Like Dedicated Servers … [Read more...]

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Impact of Shellshock Bash Bug on Cloud Computing

A considerable impact of Shellshock Bash Bug on the Cloud Computing Service providers has been seen. Here are the technical details. Shellshock is the name of the dangerous bug that plagues the Bash shell, the utility which is widely used in all UNIX, Unix-Like systems in clouding our Mac (OS X). Those who do not have idea about UNIX Shell can read this article. And the news regarding the … [Read more...]

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PHP-FPM Status Page for Nginx (Ubuntu, Rackspace Cloud)

Here is how you can enable PHP-FPM Status Page for Nginx using Ubuntu as OS on Rackspace Cloud Server. It can throw error with improper setup. Indeed, this status page is quite important but has some security vulnerabilities as it might be checked by the Public using simple GET request. Hence, we suggest the readers to follow the method on dev setup first.   PHP-FPM Status Page for Nginx … [Read more...]

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Google Panda 4.1, Machine Learning and Cloud Automation

Definitely we are not SEO, but have some intelligence to understand the pattern Google is possibly running via Google Panda 4.1 update and which has more to do with Machine Learning and Cloud Automation. Google, gained only bad names in 2013 and 2014 - NSA Spyware activities, possible involvement in Heartbleed increased the anger of the Webmasters and publishers with good content - historically … [Read more...]

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PubSubHubbub and Rackspace Cloud Queue

PubSubHubbub is a networking protocol. Rackspace is Open Source but infamous for difficult to understand API documentation by normal human. Actually there are API Writers. For Rackspace who / the company who takes care about it, floods with so much information that it becomes quite difficult to remember what exactly you came to search for! Sajal Kayan is known Page Speed expert. He writes quite … [Read more...]

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Setup WordPress on OpenShift with Domain

Here is a full guide to rightly setup WordPress on OpenShift PaaS with domain name and avoid any possible problem with OpenShift's App Name. There is no meaning of repeating the initial steps to Setup WordPress on OpenShift, we have two years old guide plus one year old video guide to setup WordPress on OpenShift. Google search claims to become bias free, you need improvement of hosting. OpenShift … [Read more...]

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PageSpeed Friendly Social Sharing For WordPress

We are fatigued to fighting with various WordPress Plugin's conflict ultimately lowering our Google PageSpeed score. Despite setting the CORS rightly - actually you can not physically cache the external images, javascripts. It is quite dangerous to use the web server or even a dedicated loadbalancer as both forward and reverse proxy. CORS is the only way to add new header, but javascripts usually … [Read more...]