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I’ve been hearing, reading, and talking a lot REST, RESTful Web Services, how to implement them, and even how to explain to your wife about it. Then I see or read presentations about what is and what is not RESTful Web Services. I’ve created and consumed quite a few web services, so while I’m not …

Preface: This is not a step-by-step tutorial, but more of an outline on what I did. Also, I wrote this really quickly before heading off to dinner, so if there are parts that are unclear, or you have questions about, please leave a comment! This last week has been a roller coaster for us at …

Over the last two days we’ve moved our Clipish Library from serving the files locally on our web server to Rackspace’s Cloud Files service. It is similar to Amazon S3, however since we were already using Rackspace Cloud Servers, we thought it would be easier to just keep it all under the same roof. The …

I know I’ve been behind in my posts, so I quickly wanted to catch up with a few I’ve been meaning to post. The first is my recommendation for a service called Wormly. Now, I’ve tried to run my own Nagios servers and such, and they work, but here is why I like Wormly. First, …

Tomorrow is the starting day at the Utah Open Source Conference (http://www.utosc.com/) , and while I’m down here attending, I have a ton of work I need to get done for my day job. Hopefully, however, I’ll be able to sneak into a presentation or two while conversion scripts run, moving 3 million internal user …

These last few days have been full of quickly implementing things I’ve only read about, but hadn’t done for myself. One situation was looking at splitting web traffic across multiple servers. In our case, we had only 2% of our website that would spike and increase our load by %1000 percent (I’m not joking) for …

I always forget how to do this, so I have to look it up each time. This will make it easier the next time. It is so simple, just I always forget. First, I need to generate my ssh pub and private keys on the host server: ssh-keygen Second, I need to copy the pub …

Ok, so I need to confess, I haven’t been a good blogger. I’ve gone two months without writing a post, which is broke a 2 year streak. But, I’m going to post date these posts, since I can. How I’ve gone this long without setting up Nagios to monitor servers is beyond me. However, I …

Every time I go to set up VirtualBox and several VMs I always forget how I setup the networking for them. Once again, I went through the pain of trying to figure it all out, so I might as well document it for future use. The Problem When creating virtual machines, especially virtual linux servers, …

A Little Background It was the summer of 2008 when I attended the LT Pact conference that I first drank the “Cloud Kool-Aid.” As you can see from my notes, I was pretty excited about this whole concept. Excited enough, one client of mine signed up for Layered Tech’s grid layer (which is what they …