This article will explain, in a few short steps, how to backup your WordPress installation to Amazon S3 service. It will deal with Ubuntu as operating system and Amazon EC2 for hosting but is not limited to such an environment. Prerequisits are an Amazon account for the S3 service, a WordPress installation and knowledge of [...]

Amazon has excellent Windows support these days. Many time you’d like a larger C: drive than the 30 GB that come standard with the Amazon images. Here is how you enlarge the boot drive to 100 GB.

Up until now this WordPress blog has been hosted by DreamHost, a company with a good reputation and a solid knowledge in hosting. Unfortunately, the server we’ve been located on, Trafficante, have lately had some problems with stability and performance and DreamHost have also had some MySQL stability issues. This, plus the fact that we’ve [...]

In a recent post I wrote about the particular problems we’ve been having with integration testing the Spring LDAP project and the use we’ve made of Amazon EC2 for solving these problems. In this post I’ll present the implementation details. Prerequisites In order to keep this reasonably brief I’ll have to refer to the getting [...]

One of the major challenges we’ve been facing in the Spring LDAP project is to make certain that the library works together with different LDAP servers. Different servers behave differently in certain situations; some functionality might only be supported on select servers, etc. In the ideal situation we would run our automated test suite against [...]