Author Archives: Anthony Heddings

How to Transfer an S3 Bucket to Google Cloud Platform Storage

If you’re transitioning from AWS to Google Cloud Platform, you might have a lot of data stored in S3 buckets. Luckily, Google provides a tool for automatically transferring the bucket’s contents to their own Cloud Storage platform.Read This… Continue reading

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How to Configure Your DNS

DNS records are used to translate addresses humans can understand (like google.com) into IP addresses computers can understand (like 64.233.191.255). In order for your site to work properly, you’ll need to make sure your DNS configuration is in o… Continue reading

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How to Set Up Basic HTTP Authentication in NGINX

Basic username and password authentication is an easy and simple way to secure administrative panels and backend services. Nginx can be configured to protect certain areas of your website, or even used as a reverse proxy to secure other services.Read T… Continue reading

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How to Set Up Basic HTTP Authentication in Apache

Basic HTTP authentication uses usernames and passwords to secure certain routes of your website. It’s commonly used to lock down admin panels and backend services, and—in conjunction with HTTPS—provides good security for web based res… Continue reading

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HTTP/3 Is Coming QUIC, Here’s What You Need to Know

HTTP/3 is the next generation of the HTTP protocol. It’s powered by QUIC, which replaces TCP at the transport layer and cuts down on the number of round trips a client must make to establish a connection.Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › Continue reading

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How to Create and Use Self-Signed SSL in Apache

Signing your own SSL certificates is usually done as an easy alternative to certificate authorities for internal communications or non-user facing sites that need still encryption. Here’s how to set one up with Apache.Read This Article on CloudSa… Continue reading

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Electron Can Bring Your Web App to the Desktop. Here’s How to Get Started

Electron is a framework that packages your web application with a copy of Chrome, allowing it to run on a user’s desktop alongside native applications. It’s easy to install, and only requires you to drop in your index.html and other depende… Continue reading

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How to Assign a Static IP Address to Your Google Cloud Platform Instances

If you’re hosting web services on a cloud server, such as GCP’s Compute Engine, you probably want to use a static public IP address, as the default dynamic one is subject to change whenever the server is restarted.Read This Article on Cloud… Continue reading

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Should You Be Using Google Cloud Platform’s Premium Network Tier?

Google Cloud Platform is the first major cloud provider to offer two different network service tiers. Standard tier is like any other provider, but the Premium tier uses Google’s own network, which comes with numerous benefits.Read This Article o… Continue reading

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How to Create and Use Self-Signed SSL in Nginx

If you just need encryption for internal server connections or non-user facing sites, signing your own SSL certificates is an easy way to avoid dealing with an external certificate authority. Here’s how to set it up in nginx.Read This Article on … Continue reading

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