Author Archives: Anthony Heddings

If you’re looking to host a simple website for free, you aren’t limited to free website makers like Google Sites or Wix. Plenty of cloud providers offer hosting platforms with generous free tiers that allow you to have total control over th… Continue reading →

It’s an edge case, but if someone types in your IP address instead of your domain name, you’ll want your server to handle that request properly, and redirect them to the actual site. We’ll show how to set it up in NGINX and Apache.Rea… Continue reading →

When working with a team of programmers, anything that can help the process run smoothly and on track is worth a lot of time and money. We’ll discuss a few different tools that can help your team get more organized.Read This Article on CloudSavvy… Continue reading →

Every AWS EC2 instance you provision needs storage to serve as the primary drive. Like everything else in AWS, your usage of this is metered, and can dramatically change the cost of EC2.Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › Continue reading →

If you’ve just shared your website with someone else, or on a social media platform, and been disappointed that the link didn’t expand, it’s an easy fix to make your links more appealing and improve SEO.Read This Article on CloudSavvy… Continue reading →

Docker is a way of packaging applications and all of their required dependencies and configuration into a single image. Essentially, this turns your server configuration into something that can be managed with git and synchronized across every machine… Continue reading →

In many ways, S3 buckets act like like cloud hard drives, but are only “object level storage,” not block level storage like EBS or EFS. However, it is possible to mount a bucket as a filesystem, and access it directly by reading and writing… Continue reading →

CDNs, or Content Delivery Networks, are made up of many edge servers all around the world, and cache your website’s content or static files for greater performance and significantly lower last-mile latency to the end user.Read This Article on Clo… Continue reading →

Containers are a Unix concept that allows applications to be packaged with all their required dependencies into one easy-to-run image. This has resounding benefits for a DevOps workflow, but is it worth the extra hassle?Read This Article on CloudSavvy … Continue reading →

NGINX is commonly used as a web server, but it also does a great job of acting as a reverse proxy and load balancer—a network device designed to handle the bulk of your traffic and route requests to multiple different web servers.Read This Articl… Continue reading →