Sill looking for a way to improve your site’s performance after trying other methods? Well Tenni Theurer, a Product Optimization Manager at Yahoo has five great articles that covers reducing the number of HTTP requests, explains web browser caching, the effect of HTTP cookies (co-written by Patty Chi), parallel downloads (co-written by Steve Souders) and [...]
I recently needed to create some start-up scripts for both a Mongrel cluster and a couple of Memcached servers using Launchd on a Mac. Using Lingon to generate a plist for each I went through a few versions before I came up with one that would do what I wanted. Until the final version I [...]
There are two books on Ruby deployments getting ready to hit the bookshelves that I’m looking forward too. Rails Deployment: Production Configuration and Advanced Rails Tactics (ISBN 0978739205) by Ezra Zygmuntowicz and Mongrel: Serving, Deploying and Extending Your Ruby Applications (ISBN 0321483502) by Matt Pelletier and Zed Shaw.
Ezra’s book will go into Mongrel, other [...]
A few months after my last post on what I’ve been doing at work, we have added two new sites, about finished an upgrade from NT4 to Active Directory, migrate Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003, added new MailFrontier anti-spam Appliances, moved from CA ARCServ to Veritas 10.D with continuous protection, new IP-KVMs, new firewalls at [...]
There aren’t too many alternatives to MS Exchange and even fewer when looking for OSS solutions. Lately the Hula Project was the new option to look at, but now there is Zimbra Collaboration Suite. Founded in 2003 to improve enterprise messaging and collaboration, Zimbra has released a beta of their product including the following features:
Easy [...]
It doesn’t feel like it, but two months has past since I have started my new position as IT manager. After reworking the backup procedures, starting a disaster recovery plan and getting set for an Active Directory / Exchange upgrade I finally feel like things are starting to get to where they should be. I’ve [...]
A few weeks after I took over as the IT manager a rather large problem came up. A file server at a remote office had failed and the backup process at the same time. The file server was a Snap Server setup in RAID 5 with only four drives and had two drives fail. At [...]