by Justin | Feb 23, 2018 | Cruise
For the past few years, one of the biggest trends in tech has been the transition to the cloud. Almost every industry is realizing cost savings by embracing cloud computing. After all, it’s fairly hard to compete with Amazon when it comes to economies-of-scale...
by Justin | Jan 18, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, Security, Web Hosting
Perhaps the most important aspect of any system is the backup strategy. All sysadmins would agree that without good backups, it’s hard to sleep at night. Over the years, we have used many different backup strategies at Sourcetoad. My current favorite one is...
by Justin | Oct 3, 2016 | App Development
When writing about time and software development, most people think of time zones. This Youtube video does a pretty good job of explaining why time zones can become such a nightmare for developers. Recently, I stumbled upon a whole different issue with time and...
by Justin | Jun 27, 2016 | App Development, Cloud Services
Sourcetoad develops many different types of applications for many different types of customers. Many of our projects are never intended to be used by vast numbers of users. They are either specialized tools to assist in business functions for clients or are focused on...
by Justin | Feb 8, 2016 | Cloud Services, Web Hosting
Part one of this article discussed the downfalls of running a “VPS-style” site on a single AWS instance. It is strongly discouraged for any production site, by everyone familiar with AWS, including AWS itself. So, the question then arises as to how one is supposed to...
