“How to defend your website with ZIP bombs” has been making rounds on the Internet for the last few weeks. It’s both sad, that we have to resolve to such measures, and funny as to how tongue-in-cheek this approach is.
Whether you are going to implement it for your web host or not, it’s well worth reading, for a better understanding of what’s going on online, in places, that you are probably not looking at.
As someone who went through a whole pile of trying and error with Amazon AWS, I strongly recommend reading anything you can on the subject before you start moving your business to the cloud (not even necessarily Amazon, but any vendor), and while you have it running there. “The AWS spend of a SaaS side-business” is a good one in that category.
Web Hosting Geeks published a very extensive research into domain names and web hosting provider options. It includes the analysis of domain name trends by TLD, as well as over 24,000 hosting companies and how they are doing.
Complete with reviews, and detailed stats about each and every company, I think, this is one of the most complete and in-depth data I’ve seen for a long time.
5 Fancy Reasons and 7 Funky Uses for the AWS CLI has a few good examples of AWS CLI usage:
There also a few useful links in the article, so make sure you at least scroll through it.
I think I’m giving up on even knowing the list and purpose of all the Amazon AWS services, let alone how to use them. Here’s one I haven’t heard about until this very morning: AWS X-Ray.
AWS X-Ray helps developers analyze and debug production, distributed applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture. With X-Ray, you can understand how your application and its underlying services are performing to identify and troubleshoot the root cause of performance issues and errors. X-Ray provides an end-to-end view of requests as they travel through your application, and shows a map of your application’s underlying components. You can use X-Ray to analyze both applications in development and in production, from simple three-tier applications to complex microservices applications consisting of thousands of services.