Archives for Cloud Computing - Page 28
Guaranteeing you do not lose your IP address on AWS – inside a VPC
Public Facing Instances If you need your AWS instance to be public facing ( it hosts a public facing website etc.), you need a public IP (in addition to the…
Uploading large files to Azure (or AWS ) VM
Small files You should be able COPY and PASTE from your desktop to the Remote Desktop (Azure VM). Large Files – Using Azure’s Storage Service Azure offers a storage service…
Proxy versus Reverse Proxy, Firewall versus Reverse Proxy
What is the difference between a proxy (forward proxy) and a reverse proxy ? What is the difference between a proxy and a firewall? This post attempt to highlight the…
Connecting from Azure to on premise Active Directory
Azure has a new offering – Azure AD Connect You need an AD Admin from your enterprise to set this ; It is a fairly straightforward wizard driven process.
CNames versus A Records versus ALIASES
All three (CNames, A Records and Aliases) map names to IP Addresses. The difference between these is: The A record maps a name to one or more IP addresses, when…
Disaster Recovery and Failover in AWS–Some notes from the field
(See also, a newer post on advanced in the cloud) is not the same as Failover – though several people seem to use these ; Failover typically means that there…
Amazon RDS for SQL Server–Notes from the field…
Here are some notes from the field… For PROD environments, use Multi-AZ deployment (mirroring) and provisioned IOPS. It is much harder to change this after the fact – if you…
Cloud Foundry–a better option for Apps as a Service (PaaS)
Cloud Foundry – An alternative PaaS – competes with Elastic BeanStalk and AppFabric from Azure. Cloud Foundry PaaS supports apps written in Ruby, , and Java Developers can add their…
WordPress on Azure–Some Tips
I finally dumped GoDaddy for hosting wordpress (they removed the ability for customers to create support tickets, and somehow promised that this would be a good thing (it wasn’t) and…
Azure website , Godaddy domain
It took me a good 4-6 hours to figure this crap out – so I thought I might as well write a post (in case I need to do it …