Software defined architectures bring together all the control systems of a data center to ensure integration at the base of scalability. Gartner™s Yefim V. Natis, VP & Fellow, has mentioned about a new enterprise architectural style which is on rise - Software-Defined Architecture (SDA). Scalability was more related to pure cloud computing before. Rackspace OnMetal Server suddenly brought many … [Read more...]
Load Balancer versus HTTP Accelerator on Cloud IaaS
We can compare the working mechanism of Load Balancer versus HTTP Accelerator when we are using any Cloud based IaaS. There are differences. Through previously published articles, we talked both about Load Balancing and HTTP Accelerator like Varnish. These are actually different type of server setups intended to deploy any Web Application. For a given web application, we consider which server … [Read more...]
WordPress Nginx php5 fpm Installation on Rackspace Cloud
Here is a helper video guide to prepare and install WordPress on Ubuntu 14.04 PVHVM on Rackspace Cloud Server With Nginx php5 fpm and MySQL. For developmental setup, you can use one server configuration - you can run Application Server (MySQL) and Web Server Software (Nginx) on the same server. This is a helper video guide corresponding to our previously published guide to Install WordPress with … [Read more...]
Installing WordPress on Lighttpd Web Server
Installing WordPress on Lighttpd Web Server is quite easy “ the major difference is the presence of pdo directory and db.php file in the root of FTP folder. We already talked about lighttpd Web Server Software and it is assumable that, why we want to go for installing WordPress on lighttpd Web Server Software “ it is light. We are assuming that, you are not a novice user, you already know how to … [Read more...]
Specifying Webroot from Apache httpd File in Heroku Cloud
Specifying Webroot from Apache httpd File in Heroku Cloud is possible to set just in the way in case of our server with SSH / Telnet access. Please read and follow the previous guide on Advanced Commands for Perfect Setup for Heroku Cloud, before proceeding with this step by step guide for Specifying Webroot and configuring it. Otherwise it might appear to be difficult to follow. What … [Read more...]
Tools For Checking HTTP Requests and Responses From a Server
Tools for checking HTTP requests and responses from a server are required for your web server™s response to a particular request. Here is an updated article. This is an updated article which was published 4 years ago on this website, it got deleted due to corrupted database as we needed to move and change the whole setup for SSL. Practically these kind of articles are evergreen and time standing. … [Read more...]
Change SSH Welcome Message (Ubuntu, Rackspace Cloud)
Here is How You Can Change SSH Welcome Message, Also Known as Message of the Day or MOTD on Ubuntu Server on Rackspace Cloud By Simple Way. The default message is somewhat like Welcome to Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-29-virtual x86_64). Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/, System information as of etceteras not only boring but also useless because this Message of the Day or MOTD on … [Read more...]
Install WordPress with Nginx on Rackspace Cloud Server
This guide shows how to install WordPress with Nginx on Ubuntu 14.04 with step by step commands and explanation of the steps of what we are doing. We usually publish a video guide separately which are available on YouTube and iTunes as Podcast. The reader should know minimum about nginx HTTP Server. This guide is intended for new nginx users, therefore we have not underwent complex steps or … [Read more...]
The Customize Windows is Using HTTPS Now
We are using full HTTPS URLs, this is a kind of official notice for various providers and readers of this website in order to provide us feedback. It was possibly expected that, we will change to full HTTPS instead of keep using HTTP, from our recent post. Why The Customize Windows is Using HTTPS Now? While it is costly to use a good SSL certificate, process is quite … [Read more...]
WordPress SSL Setup Tips, Tricks and Planning
Old WordPress SSL Setup demands tips, tricks and planning to implement and not harm SEO. What we have described is industry's standard, unlike using cheeper hosting, PHP dependent redirection like written in many websites. They can be popular and easy method but, know it very well; they has inherited risks of becoming PHP ( Read Apache2 ). First Extended Validation Certificate is not required … [Read more...]
How To Convert SSL .crt Certificate to .pem?
Sometimes, some SSL authorities deliver certificate in .crt format but we need in .pem format - like in case of Rackspace Load Balancers. Right now, the reason to get mad with SSL Certificate is upcoming HTTP 2.0 protocol. Performing a search about SSL performing a on this website can help you to learn what possibly you need to know. For server only; reading guides like how to Install Comodo SSL … [Read more...]