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What Are NoSQL Databases?

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Los Angeles, California. Mon-Fri 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. What’s this blog about? Who’s writing this blog? What Are NoSQL Databases? What Are NoSQL Databases? What Are NoSQL Databases? Are losing popularity with developers looking to build apps that are capable of intrinsic scaling. NoSQL databases like MongoDB. Image Source: http:/ www.networkworld.com. Https:/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoSQL. November 28, 2015. My name is Philip Skeete and I have worked in information technology for 25 years. I started my c...

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Updating a SmartOS USB Install

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Los Angeles, California. Mon-Fri 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. What’s this blog about? Who’s writing this blog? Updating a SmartOS USB Install. Updating a SmartOS USB Install. Updating a SmartOS USB Install. This is an abbreviated how-to on updating your SmartOS version when your existing install is booting from a USB flash drive. In this example we will be updating to 20150903T073920Z but you would simple replace the occurrences of 20150903T073920Z with whatever version you want to update to. Change out of the US...

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Category Archive for "Network" | cloud.LA

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Los Angeles, California. Mon-Fri 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. What’s this blog about? Who’s writing this blog? SmartOS VM Change IP Address. SmartOS VM Change IP Address. The expected method for managing VM IP addresses in SmartOS is an orchestration system like Joyent SDC or Project FiFo, but both these systems have enough of a resource overhead that some people may choose to run SmartOS as a stand-alone hypervisor. As SmartOS is primarily a cloud platform it would be detrimental to the sytem….

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Category Archive for "Datacenter" | cloud.LA

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Los Angeles, California. Mon-Fri 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. What’s this blog about? Who’s writing this blog? About datacenters and collocation. As hard drives have become more and more commoditized and prices per TB continue to drop, manufacturers are under immense pressure to find ways to differentiate their drives and establish better profit margins. While drive consumers simply expect the drive to be fast and reliable, some manufactures seem to think that reliability is a value…. Hanging out in the datacenter.

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Category Archive for "SmartOS" | cloud.LA

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Los Angeles, California. Mon-Fri 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. What’s this blog about? Who’s writing this blog? SmartOS is an open-source hypervisor based on the UNIX operating system. SmartOS Custom Login Banner. SmartOS Custom Login Banner. SmartOS VM Change IP Address. Updating a SmartOS USB Install. This is an abbreviated how-to on updating your SmartOS version when your existing install is booting from a USB flash drive. In this example we will be updating to 20150903T073920Z but you would simple replace ...

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Category Archive for "General" | cloud.LA

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Los Angeles, California. Mon-Fri 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. What’s this blog about? Who’s writing this blog? General cloud related post. SmartOS Custom Login Banner. SmartOS Custom Login Banner. This quick tutorial covers how to create a custom login banner, or what's formally called 'message of the day' or MOTD in the Unix world. This will help you more easily identify what host you're logged into and give you an idea of it's basic systems specs. It also looks pretty cool. Create the…. I am probably not the on...

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Worst Cloud Drives

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Los Angeles, California. Mon-Fri 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. What’s this blog about? Who’s writing this blog? References: https:/ www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-for-q2-2015/. February 2, 2016. My name is Philip Skeete and I have worked in information technology for 25 years. I started my career as a computer hobbyist doing system and network administration to pay for college, I later became head of IT of a Fortune 500 company, and now I am a technology entrepreneur. View all posts by: philip.

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Hanging out in the datacenter

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Los Angeles, California. Mon-Fri 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. What’s this blog about? Who’s writing this blog? Hanging out in the datacenter. Hanging out in the datacenter. Hanging out in the datacenter. We're busy getting the cloud.LA presence setup at Switch SuperNAP in Vegas. This is an absolutely amazing facility. Check them out at https:/ www.supernap.com. Uptime-certified Tier IV Gold. Tier IV Gold operations, security and maintenance protocols. Supporting 40 kW of power per cabinet at scale. July 31, 2015.

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“Let’s Encrypt” Free SSL/HTTPS Certificates

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Los Angeles, California. Mon-Fri 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. What’s this blog about? Who’s writing this blog? 8220;Let’s Encrypt” Free SSL/HTTPS Certificates. 8220;Let’s Encrypt” Free SSL/HTTPS Certificates. 8220;Let’s Encrypt” Free SSL/HTTPS Certificates. Note: Let’s Encrypt is in beta. Please don’t use it unless you’re comfortable with beta software that may contain bugs. If your operating system includes a packaged copy of letsencrypt, install it from there and use the. Command. Otherwise, you can use our.

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cloud.LA | Adventures in Cloud

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Los Angeles, California. Mon-Fri 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. What’s this blog about? Who’s writing this blog? Hanging out in the datacenter. Hanging out in the datacenter. Speedtest.net on cloud.LA. I've used Cogent enough times and for long enough that I do remember the times when larger ISPs would randomly shut down peering points with Cogent and everyone was making a big deal about Cogent selling last-mile fiber too cheaply and using other carriers networks to back-haul their traffic. There is no doubt th...