The Paradox Of The Mail Server On The Cloud
Providing your web application with a mail service that works flawlessly is probably essential for your business. You need to send activation emails to users, password reset emails, newsletters and probably a whole bunch of other emails that have to do with interactions with your application.
When there were only physical servers and static IP addresses, [...]
Posted at 9am on 10/29/09 | 4 comments | Filed Under: Business, Cloud Computing, DNS, EC2 | Tagged: AWS, Blacklist, Cloud, DKIM, EC2, Email, GoGrid, mail server, open relay, PTR, RackCloud, RBL, SMTP, SPF | read on
Improving Wordpress Caching: Batcache and Redirects
There’s a great plugin for Wordpress called Batcache by Andy Skelton, which uses memcached as the cache backend for object cache and full page caches. It’s a great piece of code, and using it is a must if you want a scalable distributed cache for your Wordpress install (avoiding the local [...]
Posted at 9am on 9/15/09 | no comments; | Filed Under: LAMP, Memcached, Programming | Tagged: batcache, Memcached, object cache, redirect, Wordpress, wp-super-cache, wp_redirect | read on