Nextcloud is a free software (under AGPL 3 and GPL 2) developed in PHP for storing data (e.g. files, calendars, contacts, etc.) on a private server. The user can access the data via a web interface as well as with client applications (smartphone and desktop). Servers and clients can synchronize. Nextcloud enables the user to access a central and consistent database from many end devices and … [Read more...]
Docker Kubernetes Book
Docker and Kubernetes have assumed great importance in modern software development. To put it in plain terms, Docker simplifies the process of packaging and distributing applications. It utilizes containerization, encapsulating apps, and dependencies. As an orchestration platform, Kubernetes manages containerized applications and automates deployment, scaling, and operations. Docker and Kubernetes … [Read more...]
Opportunities and Risks of On-Premise
On-premises or on-prem refers to a usage and licensing model for server-based computer programs (software). Until about 2010, local use or licensing for the local use of software was the norm and therefore had no special designation. It is only since local use has been increasingly replaced by Software as a Service (SaaS) or cloud computing that the term off-premises has emerged as an … [Read more...]
Hybrid Multi-Cloud Environments Are Becoming Ubiquitous
Multi-cloud is the use of multiple cloud computing and storage services from different vendors in a single heterogeneous architecture by an organization to improve the capacity and cost of cloud infrastructure. This also refers to the distribution of cloud assets, software, applications, etc., across multiple cloud hosting environments. With a typical multi-cloud architecture that uses two or more … [Read more...]
What is Confidential Computing?
Confidential computing is a privacy enhancing computing methodology intended to protecting data. The method isolates sensitive data during processing into a protected CPU enclave and only authorized programmers who have access to the contents of the enclave—the data that is being processed. The methods used to process it—and they are invisible and unknowable to anyone else, including the cloud … [Read more...]
Fastest Origin Pull CDNs of 2023
It is hard to beat few CDN providers such as CacheFly, Akamai, Fastly, StackPath (MaxCDN) and so on. The choice is more limited if you want to narrow your option with origin pull CDNs. The advantage of origin pull CDNs is that, their server will automatically pull the static files (including HTML) on their server. You have nothing to configure on WordPress except adding the root URL of the CDN. … [Read more...]
What Are the Advantages of Dedicated Server Over Cloud Server (for WordPress)
This article is complimentary to the previously published article What Are the Advantages of Cloud Server Over Dedicated Server for WordPress. Even the $100/month dedicated servers offer certain advantages over cloud server for the purpose of hosting WordPress. While the list of reasons why cloud servers are superior to running WordPress is endless, it is true that on a dedicated server, you are … [Read more...]
What Are the Advantages of Cloud Server Over Dedicated Server (for WordPress)
Premium cloud servers from reputed web hosts (including IBM, Fujitsu, and also Linode's dedicated CPU) offer several advantages over cheap dedicated servers. The 100% warranty of what you'll receive is only present for colocation hosting. Colocation is super costly, and complicated, adding extra headaches and expenditures. The reason cloud servers have been a popular choice over any kind of … [Read more...]
What Elasticity in Cloud Computing Means?
Elasticity in cloud computing is the ability of this cloud to adapt to application needs as quickly as possible. There are several definitions according to various authors, some considering the notions of scalability and elasticity as identical, others as distinct. The advent of such distributed systems inevitably leads to technical problems that must be solved or limited. At the economic … [Read more...]
Is it Good to Run Apache Web server and MySQL Database on Separate Cloud Servers?
It is common to have a single LAMP-based website on a cloud server so the database and web server are on the same "container". With the advent of database-as-a-service, some of the web hosts are already offering MySQL, PostgreSQL database servers as separate instances. The question is, to run a WordPress installation, is it practical to have MySQL database on a different server? What are the … [Read more...]
Advantages of Cloud Server Over Dedicated Server for Hosting WordPress
It can be confusing to some of the readers as sometimes we say that dedicated servers are a great choice for hosting WordPress, and other times we are praise cloud servers. Is sponsorship money playing behind these contradictory statements or there are practical problems? Managed dedicated servers are great for performance. Unless you pay a huge behind-the-premium cloud server you never get the … [Read more...]