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aws – Matt Beckman

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15 to Amazon S3 with Jets3t. Introduction to backing up a Joomla website to Amazon S3 storage using Jets3t. We all know backups are important. I’ve found what I consider a pretty good backup solution using Amazon S3. It’s super cheap, your backups are in a secure location, and you can get to them from anywhere. For my backup solution, I’m using Debian Linux (Etch), but this whole setup is not dependent on your current favorite flavor of Linux because it uses Java. DayOfWeek = `date %a`. DumpWWW=”ba...

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haproxy – Matt Beckman

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Normalize Accept-Encoding Headers via HAProxy for Squid Cache. So… what’s the deal? Apparently, the Vary: Encoding. My first attempt was to do something on the Squid servers themselves. However, the “hdr replace” function I looked into did not have any impact on how Squid actually handles those requests, so I could hdr replace all day long and each browser would still see separate cache objects for each individual page. The alternative was to use HAProxy, but it turns out this works well! An additional r...

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dreamhost – Matt Beckman

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Soon after I opened my own Dreamhost account, my company needed an external hosting environment for Joomla instances, and I recommended Dreamhost. I mentioned it supported unlimited domains, MySQL databases, etc., and had a large amount of space/bandwidth for any of our sub-projects within the company. They even have a One-click install for Joomla! It sounded like a low-cost solution, and seemed to be perfect for what we needed. 8230;or so we thought. Continue reading Dreamhost Hosting Review. January 17...

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canon5d – Matt Beckman

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Canon 5D Mark II is Insane. If you haven’t yet heard of the Canon EOS 5D Mark II… I’ll fill you in. It’s a brand new camera from Canon that features 21 Megapixel resolution with insanely sharp HD video recording. One of the first people to get their hands on the camera was Vincent Laforet. Who produced a short film shot exclusively with the 5D using a wide array of lenses, and created. My friend Ron Hsu. Already blogged about it earlier. So you will retain the highest quality videos possible.

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Debian – Matt Beckman

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Using the ACL in HAProxy for Load Balancing Named Virtual Hosts. Until recently, I wasn’t aware of the ACL system in HAProxy, but once I found it I realized that I have been missing a very important part of load balancing with HAProxy! While the full configuration settings available for the ACL are listed in the configuration doc. The below example includes the basics that you’ll need to build an HAProxy load balancer that supports multiple host headers. Backend www example com balance roundrobin cookie ...

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14 – Matt Beckman

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Run ASP.NET on Non-Standard Page Extensions. Setup ISAPI Application Mapping. The first step is to tell IIS what system you would like the extension to map to. Open your existing website in IIS. Browse to the Home Directory tab. Open the Application Settings Configuration (you should see a list of existing application mappings). Click “Add”. Browse for the .NET Framework you want to use (e.g.: C: Windows Microsoft.NET Framework v2.0.50727 aspnet isapi.dll). Enter the extension (such as .htm).

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heartbeat – Matt Beckman

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Tips on Load Balancing a Joomla Cluster with HAProxy. Having written this blog post almost a full year ago, I have since then completely switched all of my Joomla websites to the automatically scaling website cloud host. Scale My Site. Since doing so, we haven’t had to deal with HAProxy, load balancing, or anything with regard to scaling due to the hosting cloud’s seamlessly clustered environment. I highly recommend anyone reading this article right now to check out cloud hosting. Many people understand ...

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apt-get – Matt Beckman

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XenServer 3.2.0: Upgrade Debian Linux from Sarge to Etch. If you are running XenServer 3.2.0, then you have a built in Debian Sarge image. If you happen to want to upgrade an instance to Debian Etch (the latest stable build as of February 1, 2008), you should follow these steps. It isn’t a simple. Command as other websites may have you believe. The following steps are a summary of what commands I performed while following the official upgrade guide. Go to Debian Mirror List. Mount -o remount,rw /. Not so...

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asp.net – Matt Beckman

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Improve Scalability and Performance in ASP.NET Apps. If you’re looking to scale out ASP.NET applications, here is an interesting article that goes into length on important aspects to improve performance for .NET applications in high-traffic environments. The article covers the following topics:. Optimizing the ASP.NET pipeline system. ASPNET, AJAX caching, and what you need to know. Deploying ASP.NET from a staging to a production environment. Optimizing the ASP.NET process configuration. March 17, 2009.

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gallery – Matt Beckman

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New Digital SLR Camera. I uploaded photos from our maiden voyage to the Wild Animal Park, and you can check them out at our photo gallery. The photos from San Francisco were not taken with the D40, but with our ol’ Powershot A510, so keep that in mind. Edit: I moved our photo gallery to a Picasa gallery: http:/ picasaweb.google.com/mattlpbeckman. July 20, 2008. August 7, 2008. 2 Comments on New Digital SLR Camera. Proudly powered by WordPress.