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Atwood Drops the Ball on Email Security
April 26, 2012
I'm a huge fan of Jeff Atwood, guru of software development and all things Web, and his Coding Horror blog. However, in a recent post entitled "Make Your Email Hacker Proof," he makes some harrowingly false claims about email security.
Optimize Drupal with External Caching
April 23, 2012
The best way -- perhaps the only way -- to fully optimize Drupal is with external caching.
A Better Way To Set MaxClients (prefork)
April 20, 2012
For ages, I've been using ps to determine Apache's RAM usage (and advising others to do the same) according to the guide at devside.net (despite being disappointed that they added a massive advertisement at the top of the page). More recently I've found that it's not very accurate.
EC2 Adds Medium Instance, Universal 64-bit Support
April 5, 2012
Last month, Amazon Web Services announced two new changes to EC2 that removed the last reasons that we didn't use or recommend this service for VPS hosting:
- Medium instances in the 4 GB RAM ballpark (3.75 GB)
- 64-bit support on all instance sizes