11 points by brk 29 minutes ago | link
Although I sometimes get downvoted for this, I'll say it again:
You can't outsource your liability.
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If your product is a webapp, then the underlying messy bits of backups, hardware, availability and redundancy also require some amount of conscious thought on your part. Not every site/app needs it's own mini-datacenter, and you might not even need your own dedicated server (though you probably do when you reach a certain minimal amount of scale). But you DO need to have someone who is thinking about backups and availability, and a valid solution is not to assume that the smart folks at Amazon or Rackspace or any other hosting provider are going to be completely and consistently working with your best interests and uptime in mind.
EVRYTHING fails at some point. Every server, every generator, every upstream connection, every hosting provider big or small. And in this case I mean fail as in goes dark for some period of time not covered by backups or hot-spares.
So, plan accordingly.
Technology is a passion. Applying technology to solve your business problems is an Art!
Monday, May 10, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
Capitalize on your Expertise, Monetize Websites and Blog Posts
Todays business models continue to embrace new revenue streams. One such revenue stream that get's easier to integrate into just about any business model is affiliate ads.
Simply pick vendors and programs that enhance your own expertise and away you go!
Well, it's not that easy, but, it IS getting easier!
With Google AdSense and Google AdSense for RSS feeds, you have well known monetization techniques that can be easily integrated with your websites and blogs.
This weekend I will work with the new Blogger integration launched recently for Amazon Associates.
With this integration, you can search the Amazon product catalog without leaving the Blogger interface and insert links to the products you find into your posts.
Not only is the process of linking to products more efficient, but Amazon makes it easy for you to earn money whenever your readers actually buy the products you write about. This is known as an “affiliate program”, and it’s designed to let you recommend products you like to your audience — if they buy the product, you’ll earn a commission on that purchase.
Click Here for a review on ProBlogger.net that reviews affiliate programs in general.
And click Here for a good overview at ProBlogger and Darren’s “11 Lessons Learned” post about Amazon Associates describing how to get the most out of the program.
Simply pick vendors and programs that enhance your own expertise and away you go!
Well, it's not that easy, but, it IS getting easier!
With Google AdSense and Google AdSense for RSS feeds, you have well known monetization techniques that can be easily integrated with your websites and blogs.
This weekend I will work with the new Blogger integration launched recently for Amazon Associates.
With this integration, you can search the Amazon product catalog without leaving the Blogger interface and insert links to the products you find into your posts.
Not only is the process of linking to products more efficient, but Amazon makes it easy for you to earn money whenever your readers actually buy the products you write about. This is known as an “affiliate program”, and it’s designed to let you recommend products you like to your audience — if they buy the product, you’ll earn a commission on that purchase.
Click Here for a review on ProBlogger.net that reviews affiliate programs in general.
And click Here for a good overview at ProBlogger and Darren’s “11 Lessons Learned” post about Amazon Associates describing how to get the most out of the program.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Lessons from the Trenches: Deploying Hyper-V R2 and NetApp
Avanade presents good advice in this whitepaper.
This article covers:
* Information about our current virtual server environment
* Our experiences moving to Hyper-V R2
* Building for performance
* Planning for live migration
* Storage tips for cluster shared volumes (CSVs)
* Server and storage management and virtual machine (VM) self-service portals
This article covers:
* Information about our current virtual server environment
* Our experiences moving to Hyper-V R2
* Building for performance
* Planning for live migration
* Storage tips for cluster shared volumes (CSVs)
* Server and storage management and virtual machine (VM) self-service portals
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Host your Web Site in the Cloud & The Solution Selling Fieldbook
Two GREAT books to add to your reading lists!
Monday, December 21, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Symantec launches on Amazon Web Services
This is an impressive announcement by two significant companies providing and protecting the future of Utility computing and IT as a platform.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) users can now use Symantec’s Endpoint Protection and Veritas Storage Foundation™ Basic to help protect and manage their instances running Microsoft Windows Server® on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers a set of services that together form a reliable, scalable, and inexpensive computing platform 'in the cloud'. These pay-as-you-use cloud computing services include Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon SQS, Amazon FPS, and others .
For Details - Click Here
Amazon Web Services (AWS) users can now use Symantec’s Endpoint Protection and Veritas Storage Foundation™ Basic to help protect and manage their instances running Microsoft Windows Server® on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers a set of services that together form a reliable, scalable, and inexpensive computing platform 'in the cloud'. These pay-as-you-use cloud computing services include Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon SQS, Amazon FPS, and others .
For Details - Click Here
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Social Networking and advertising - You can make money from this?
I was reading an older article about how "Some Indie Facebook Developers Pulling In Over $700,000 A Month" and it referenced the source as SocialMedia.
Clicking over to their website and reading about how they "turn standard ad units into social experiences that resonate with friends, influencers, and community members" is impressive.
The ability to target a consumer based on their likes, hobbies, associates and multitudes of other miscellaneous facts that they may publish about themselves begs the question "Are we creating our own experiences?"
If what we are surrounded with is created from our own visions of what we like how do we experience life beyond what we know we like?
An interesting conundrum.
-Todd
Clicking over to their website and reading about how they "turn standard ad units into social experiences that resonate with friends, influencers, and community members" is impressive.
The ability to target a consumer based on their likes, hobbies, associates and multitudes of other miscellaneous facts that they may publish about themselves begs the question "Are we creating our own experiences?"
If what we are surrounded with is created from our own visions of what we like how do we experience life beyond what we know we like?
An interesting conundrum.
-Todd
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Did Microsoft Just Kill the Cloud?
I've been reading all the news about the sidekick and it's lost data and how it's somehow "The Clouds Fault" Such nonsense. Reading through the article posted here by the folks at The Motley Fool points to more "Cloud FUD". Or is it the users fault? Blindly trusting their data to a dark and murky "Cloud"? Or is it the fault of the owner of the server that crashed? It depends. But it's NOT "The Clouds" fault. This vague notion that things we don't understand must be "in the cloud" is rampant these days. Yet, at the end of the day, it is really "A Utility" and needs to be thought of as such. The biggest difference between your power or water as a utility is that with "The Cloud" you have many providers to choose from depending on the type of "Power" or "Water" you need and the level of service you require.
Utility providers are fallible. How many times have you lost a power transformer in your neighborhood? Or a water main line burst somewhere in the city?
Cloud Computing/Utility Computing - It is up to the owner of the server to make the service they provide to their customer as Highly Available as possible or at least to the level of the Service Level Agreement (SLA) they present to their customers. It's not some magical "Cloud" floating somewhere beyond physical reach. It is physical servers and storage and switches and routers owned and operated my your third party of choice depending on the application you wish to use.
Don't blindly put your faith in any one provider without fully understanding your risks. It's NOT "The Clouds Fault". It is a persons fault for not designing and implementing a highly available architecture that included data replication and backup services with full recovery scenarios documented and properly tested.
How often do you test YOUR System and Data recovery process?
-Todd
Utility providers are fallible. How many times have you lost a power transformer in your neighborhood? Or a water main line burst somewhere in the city?
Cloud Computing/Utility Computing - It is up to the owner of the server to make the service they provide to their customer as Highly Available as possible or at least to the level of the Service Level Agreement (SLA) they present to their customers. It's not some magical "Cloud" floating somewhere beyond physical reach. It is physical servers and storage and switches and routers owned and operated my your third party of choice depending on the application you wish to use.
Don't blindly put your faith in any one provider without fully understanding your risks. It's NOT "The Clouds Fault". It is a persons fault for not designing and implementing a highly available architecture that included data replication and backup services with full recovery scenarios documented and properly tested.
How often do you test YOUR System and Data recovery process?
-Todd
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Friday, October 9, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
With RIO winning the bid for the 2016 Olympics
What does this mean to the South American economy? Between now and 2016, many things can happen. Yet, there will also be a new spot light placed on Rio in the coming years...
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