Having secure automated backups means a lot to me. This blog post outlines a way to create encrypted backups and push them into an AWS S3 bucket protected by MFA and versioning, all with one command. There are four parts … Continue reading
Ubuntu retains apt package downloads. It also default installs all locales (language packs). These can be freed up to reclaim as much disk space as possible. This should come in handy on VPS servers, especially the smaller ones backed by … Continue reading
Wolfram Alpha has always been a interesting if not quirky ‘intelligent search engine’. It can do things like: Take derivatives – d(ln(x))/dx Generate star charts Show the position of the International Space Station Get detailed nutrition facts Stock analysis (Facebook) Routlette Payoffs … Continue reading
MySQL offers native support for connecting via SSL. By default this is available in AWS RDS MySQL instances. Using this connection method effectively encrypts all data going back and forth between the client and the server. This prevents eavesdropping (aka … Continue reading
Ran a very specific benchmark of MySQL – the native SSL connection performance penalty on AWS RDS. When establishing a MySQL connection there is a way to tell the server to use SSL to encrypt the communication between the client … Continue reading
MySQL benchmark of AWS RDS vs EC2 with complete results and instructions on how to recreate on your own for under $0.25. Update 9/15/2013 – Added bar charts to compliment tables. I found a couple blog posts with benchmark data … Continue reading
