Articles from ADMIN Issue 19
With Windows, you can create a highly available cluster at the click of a button. The cluster will even handle fully automated, non-disruptive software upgrades.
Modern ATA hard drives and SSDs offer security options that help you control access and reliably destroy data if necessary.
Microsoft offers the Windows Azure Backup service, which lets you back up data from servers in the cloud. This removes the need for your own infrastructure, and the service alleviates privacy concerns by using continuous encryption.
You can strengthen your web security by testing for common vulnerabilities. We show how to do this using the attack proxy known as Burp Suite.
The Jelastic cloud service is specifically designed to run Java and PHP applications. The service impresses with its technical finesse, thanks to immediate, load-dependent scaling without admin intervention.
The Python Data Analysis Library, or Pandas, is built on top of the fast math library NumPy and makes analysis of large volumes of data an easy and efficient experience.
Event-based request processing makes Nginx an agile web server. With the OpenResty packages, it becomes a fast application server based on the Lua scripting language.
