system administration Migration From Physical to Virtual Servers I have not seen too many blog posts on this particular topic. It seems to be some dark art reserved for consultants. So I thought I would share some of this knowledge. Recently the company I work for made the jump from physical boxes to virtualized architecture. We made this
apache Blocking Bots in Apache Using htaccess Recently I had an application become the victim of bot spam. Since the web is something on the order of 60% bot traffic, many of these are inconsequential and can safely be blocked or directed to a cache to alleviate server strain. I chose to block them in this case,
iis Blocking Bots in IIS Recently I had an application on apache become the victim of bot spam. As a good measure and to be proactive, I set out to implement the same protection on a Windows Server running IIS 7.5. The web is something on the order of 60% bot traffic, many of
siege Using Siege to Stress Test an Application Recently the company I work for migrated to new servers. During this migration we were all fairly confident that our new architecture would work and would be able to sustain considerable traffic. How much traffic is "considerable traffic"? In all honesty, none of our team and even our
