by truthbrother | Mar 21, 2018 | Amazon Web Services
Imagine an application which requires 24×7 availability with maximum 15 minutes of downtime allowed. How would you ensure the database hosted on your Elastic Block Store (EBS) volume is backed up to meet the required SLAs? An automated backup is the key process...
by truthbrother | Mar 20, 2018 | Amazon Web Services
What is a bastion host, and do I need one? Bastion hosts are instances that sit within your public subnet and are typically accessed using SSH or RDP. Once remote connectivity has been established with the bastion host, it then acts as a ‘jump’ server, allowing you to...
by truthbrother | Mar 20, 2018 | NGINX, Amazon Web Services
It’s time to Use NGINX as the Standard Proxy Server for Atlassian’s JIRA With NGINX now serving over 37% of the top 1000 websites it’s a great time to evaluate replacing Apache as the standard proxy server for Atlassian’s JIRA issue tracker. Two...
by truthbrother | Mar 20, 2018 | Amazon Web Services
To request a VPC peering connection with a VPC in your account, ensure that you have the IDs of the VPCs with which you are creating the VPC peering connection. You must both create and accept the VPC peering connection request yourself to activate it. You can create...
by truthbrother | Mar 20, 2018 | NGINX, Amazon Web Services
It is not really necessary to use HTTPS for absolutely all requests, but it makes your life much easier to just handle one scheme and redirect all plain HTTP traffic to the equivalent HTTPS resource. So please make sure you setup HTTPS for the same hostname that you...
