In the past, application development used to be a difficult process. The biggest challenge to developers wasn’t developing a final product, but struggling to manage bugs and glitches which come up on customer systems as the product is deployed. While development systems often are built to uniform standards, client systems have an infini...

"#1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax”.

A line which implies you need to go through and make the complex SQL statement simple. Frustrating, isn't it? Especially after finally having convinced yourself of making no errors till the last line. That's not the end of it. The mundane task of identifying ...

Recently the popular Xen hypervisor system showed its limitations due to leading cloud service providers being forced to reboot chunks of their compute instances due to a glitch in the software. In the past, this may have been an acceptable solution, however now that datacenters are powering mission critical applications, system administrator...

If you think that monitoring your external-facing applications is enough to have your bases covered, think again. User escalations and complaints are much more likely to arise from your internal users than from customers and prospects. In fact, when external applications underperform, visitors will abandon to your competitors (some will ...

Last month, I was caught in a tight spot. The website I was working on couldn't go live because I couldn't comprehend its sitemap! Yes, it does sound trivial, but the XML sitemap that my colleague shared didn't have the right indentation and the elements and attributes were all clustered together. I couldn't identify ...

For data center administrators, managing secure websites can be a costly endeavor due to the common requirement that every SSL certificate have its own IP address. Aside from requiring administrators to purchase multiple addresses, data center professionals often are forced to purchase multiple network adapters to handle the additional demand...

The ill- fated Sony attack

With National Cyber security awareness month coming to an end and the business headlines still talking about data breaches, here comes the next big one: Sony Pictures fell prey to a hacker attack which led to sensitive data being exposed on torrent networks.

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Firewalls are a vital component of securing your networks, however they often are a challenge to configure even for the most experienced server administrators. This is why datacenter professionals need to be able to follow best practices for server operations while also being able to effectively handle firewall issues as they come up. As disc...