Recovery.gov Search Engine Conspiracy?

CNET reports that the new government website Recovery.gov has been using a special file to prevent being indexed by search engines. The robots.txt file, which has since been removed, contained the following code to prevent Google, Yahoo, and other reputable search engines from indexing any of it’s content: # Deny all search bots, web spiders […]

Cloud Hosting – Scaling Websites the Easy Way

One often has to make a choice when it comes to website hosting. You weigh the variables and decide on the best solution for your hosting needs. Cloud hosting makes this decision a WHOLE lot easier. Let’s break it down. Price. You want to get the best deal possible. Shared hosting probably comes to mind […]

How-to Backup Joomla! 1.5 to Amazon S3 with Jets3t

Introduction to backing up a Joomla website to Amazon S3 storage using Jets3t. We all know backups are important. I’ve found what I consider a pretty good backup solution using Amazon S3. It’s super cheap, your backups are in a secure location, and you can get to them from anywhere. For my backup solution, I’m […]

How-to Build Your Own Joomla Video Community

You want people to take your Joomla website seriously. You want them to think that your “video gallery” makes your site pretty awesome. You want them to believe that you are the only one who has figured out how to embed videos from YouTube and all other 3rd-party video hosting sites… and you don’t want […]

Infinovision: High Definition Video Hosting Service

Infinovision has developed a high definition video delivery system on top of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, and makes it easy to deploy a video community with a brandable video player, direct webcam recording, fast streaming video, a full-blown API for developers, and – not to mention – an infinitely scalable architecture. From the Infinovision homepage: […]

Tips on Load Balancing a Joomla Cluster with HAProxy

For the past several weeks, I have been working with Joomla in a clustered environment. We have a single load-balancer running HAProxy that sends requests to two web servers synchronized with unison. One server is a hybrid and includes both the MySQL database as well as Apache2/PHP5. The other web server is strictly Apache2/PHP5. We […]

XenServer 3.2.0: Upgrade Debian Linux from Sarge to Etch

If you are running XenServer 3.2.0, then you have a built in Debian Sarge image. If you happen to want to upgrade an instance to Debian Etch (the latest stable build as of February 1, 2008), you should follow these steps. It isn’t a simple apt-get dist-upgrade command as other websites may have you believe. […]

Dreamhost Hosting Review

Soon after I opened my own Dreamhost account, my company needed an external hosting environment for Joomla instances, and I recommended Dreamhost. I mentioned it supported unlimited domains, MySQL databases, etc., and had a large amount of space/bandwidth for any of our sub-projects within the company. They even have a One-click install for Joomla! It […]