Most people are run all realising that the cloud is just someone else's computer which you use for a time. Cloud computing and the benefits of elastic computing are available, but not everyone will we benefits from their investment in "the cloud ", and many will be put off…
Once again I've been inspired by a stack overflow question, and it made me think about issues of a shared hosting platform. You know the ones; the "host your site for £2.99 a month" sites. There's nothing inherently wrong with it (I was using them for a long time…
Firewalls are not fun. I've got to open with that statement as I've been doing a lot of work with firewalls in the past couple of weeks. It's not been the most enjoyable of experiences, but I can see why it is needed. I've been working with some during my…
I spend quite a lot of time on StackOverflow, both in terms of finding answers for something I need, and also for helping people out with their issues. One question I see quite a lot is around security permissions for creating files on the server. Usually these questions are for…