Author Archives: Anthony Heddings

Cloud9 is a web-based IDE that allows you to write and run code from anywhere, using just your browser. You can install it on your EC2 instances to edit code and configuration files directly, rather than using a CLI text editor.Read This Article on Clo… Continue reading →

AWS provides an extensive CLI that provides access to every service they offer. You can use this on remote machines to give them access to certain features of your account, or on your personal computer to help administrate your infrastructure.Read This… Continue reading →

If you’ve moved your content around, it’s best to redirect old broken links to the working location. There are two types of redirects—302, used for testing, and 301, which is permanent, and best for SEO.Read This Article on CloudSavvy… Continue reading →

Linux has no built in way to handle JSON properly, yet many APIs will return JSON output. Here’s how to parse and use JSON data inside your shell scripts with a simple utility.Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › Continue reading →

Your website’s speed is important, as a faster website will dramatically decrease your bounce rate. Compressing your files on the server side is an easy way to reduce the size of your website, which speeds up loading.Read This Article on CloudSav… Continue reading →

People are lazier than you’d think—according to Google’s research, 53% of mobile users will leave your site if it takes over three seconds to load. You want your site to be quick to improve your conversion rate and search engine ranki… Continue reading →

Mosh, or “Mobile Shell,” is designed to be a replacement for SSH, specifically for mobile devices or laptops on slow connections. Mosh works over UDP, and will keep your connection alive, even if you change WiFi networks or experience fluct… Continue reading →

RAID, or “Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks,” is the process of combining multiple hard drives or SSDs in parallel as one logical volume, making the array more resistant against drive failures. There are many kinds of RAID, and we’… Continue reading →

The top utility displays current CPU usage for each running process, but what if you wanted to monitor this over time and display it on a graph? There are a few utilities for this if your cloud provider doesn’t have one already.Read This Article… Continue reading →

Monit is a server monitoring program that can check the processes running on your system to ensure that they’re always online and operating within reasonable CPU and memory limits. It also comes with a web interface to monitor your system.Read Th… Continue reading →