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July 13, 2014 3 min

What actually happens when you move a production workload from bare metal to virtual servers — gotchas, prep work, and what to test afterward.

May 29, 2014 4 min

A short .htaccess recipe for blocking malicious bots and scrapers on Apache — protect your server and save your bandwidth.

May 29, 2014 4 min

Stop bad bots from hammering your IIS server — a rule-based approach using URL Rewrite to block malicious user agents before they hit your app.

May 28, 2014 3 min

How to use Siege to load-test a web application — a compact walkthrough of the commands and flags that matter for real stress testing.