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{Geeks off the starboard bow, matey, arrrrrr!}

I’ve mentioned before that I’m bringing up web sites on Slicehost. It’s a cloud computing environment and that means I don’t know and don’t care exactly what or where the server is, and I only buy as much as I need.

It’s an interesting experience because in the rest of my life I’m constantly expanding my (personal) computers by adding storage and processor power so they can run faster and faster, but in the case of cloud computing, instead, I’m scaling down the pieces of software so they can run more efficiently in a small “computer” instead. (continue reading…)

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Cloud Computing- it’s a relatively new term for a relatively old concept. For at least six months now I’ve been thinking about two inevitabilities: 1) that my servers will fail some day soon; and 2) that I may have to rapidly scale (up) some customer’s site because it will suddenly have traffic needs well beyond the capacity of my servers.

The answer is pretty obvious to me – I’ll soon be eliminating my own serves in favor of purchasing computing power in whatever quantities I need at the time. Scalable on demand. From one of the cloud service providers that are coming online now.

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…and I’m not talking about a hacking cough here.

Twice this week, clients or friends of mine have had their web sites hacked. One was hacked for the second time in a couple of weeks.

I can tell a lot from the forensic analysis as I clean up a site. A bit of CSI as it were.

There is one really big problem that contributes a lot to these hacking epidemics. (continue reading…)

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