Doug Rau
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Posts by Doug Rau
Speeding up CSS
Jan 31st
As web pages become richer and more complex, they can also become burdened with numerous CSS files, background images, icons, and scripts which put additional load on your network and degrade the user experience of your website. Fortunately, there are a few things you can do to improve things.
What does a VDC get you out of?
Jan 20th
A vmForge virtual data center gets you into a private pool of computing resources which you can custom configure to your needs. It gets you into a lean, efficient, reliable, and elastic platform for your business, which can easily grow as you do. But it’s also worth looking at what it gets you out of.
Idle Thoughts: Things to do with your VDC
Jan 17th
By now, you might have a virtual datacenter, and whether by design or happenstance, you might have some extra capacity in reserve. Rather than letting it sit idle, why not utilize it for some small, temporary projects? Since creating and starting a virtual machine takes minutes instead of hours, and the resources invested can be recovered just as quickly, its relatively easy to explore options which you might not have had time for before. Maybe you can solve a problem you’ve been struggling with, or discover new capabilities for your business. Here’s a few ideas.
Building things: cubicle analogy time
Jan 4th
This week, I’ve been building (actually, rebuilding) cubicle desks in our new office space and comparisons were naturally drawn to building virtual machines a few weeks ago.
Setting up a LogicMonitor Agent
Dec 30th
LogicMonitor is a really cool server and network monitoring and measurement system which we’ve been working with. It uses a lightweight monitoring agent installed on your local network which collects data from your systems and passes it over SSL to an external aggregator. It’s capable of auto-discovery and is mostly self-configuring though you can adjust many of the metrics. After many years of working with patchwork monitoring and alert systems we’re pretty excited about it. Call us if you’re interested.
Setting up a monitoring agent on your local network is easy. The server hosting the agent just needs a JRE (Java Runtime Environment) installed using version 1.6 or greater and must be able to make an outgoing SSL connection. To monitor Windows systems, you’ll need to install the agent on a Windows server.
