Archive for February, 2012
Speeding up JS
Feb 23rd
As web pages become richer and more complex, from dynamic interface effects to loading content via AJAX, they can also become burdened with Javascript libraries which put more load on your network and degrade the user experience of your website.
There are two parts to speeding up JavaScript on your website. The first addresses how quickly your page loads, and the second how well it responds to the user. There are several things you can do to improve the former, while the latter is mostly at the mercy of the web browser’s Javascript engine.
Log like a paranoid Lumberjack!
Feb 21st
Ok, so maybe I’m a touch paranoid, but I like logging. I also like monitoring, and statistics. I like to know what’s going on, when and how. I don’t mind a little noise, as long as I can quickly assess what’s happening with my servers.
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VMware Certified Professional Addition
Feb 7th
I am very proud to announce today, February 7th, 2012, Ben Tucker passed his VCP test to become the third VMware Certified Professional employed by ipHouse (25% of our employees now hold VCP certificates).
From VMware’s VCP site:
This industry-recognized certification requires completion of a VMware-authorized training course and hands-on experience with VMware technologies. Achieving the VCP certification confirms that you have the education needed to successfully install, deploy, scale and manage VMware vSphere environments, as well as the skills obtained by a minimum of six months experience with VMware infrastructure technologies.
ipHouse employees hold many VMware certifications:
- 3 have VCP certificates: Mike, Nick, and Ben
- 2 have VMware Technical Sales Professional certificates: Ben and Nick
- 7 have VMware Sales Professional certificates: Aileen, Alex, Andrew, Ben, Dan, Mike, and Nick
This means that ~60% of ipHouse employees are certified in VMware products with 3 employees holding multiple certifications.
What does this mean to you?
ipHouse employees can help design a virtualization solution for your business whether it is a single server web site to a multi-server Microsoft Remote Desktop Services solution and everything in between. Look at our vmForge offerings and give us a call at 612-337-6320 and let us help you.
Colo to Virtual Data Center Success – January, 2012
Feb 7th
Back in October, 2011, I had posted an article titled ‘Colocation is so 1990s…‘ discussing why I feel colocation is going the way of the dodo for most SMB business needs, and really, it isn’t as efficient as using a virtual data center anyway.
In the middle of January I helped someone move away from colocation into our vmForge VDC service offering.
Think in the cloud but without the variable monthly billing or non-persistent storage.
“virtual data center” has a nice ring to it doesn’t it?
Here, There Be Storage Related Dragons…
Feb 3rd
I’m venturing into territory that I don’t understand; disk scheduling algorithms in Linux. If you know more about this than I then please feel free to disabuse me of any mistaken notions, fundamental errors, or unfortunate statements that I may make in the blog post for future updates. This is something that I barely grasp but I like to explore and learn. So at the risk of my professional pride, and with the help of Wikipedia, here I go!
Changing your disk scheduler on a Linux virtual machine to increase performance.
