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A Perfect Example of Disaster Recovery in the Cloud

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Percy Kwong

Netflix went down yesterday due to power problems at Amazon’s Virginia Datacenter.  This of course caused an outage for some of Amazon’s EC2 customers. (Like Netflix).   This is a perfect example of why Redundancy in the cloud is important. All of my customers (some of them at EC2 Virginia) stayed up and available.  How?  Redundancy….

Creating PDF Files without having to purchase anything.

Posted on May 20, 2012 by Percy Kwong

We all have the need to create pdf files at one time or another.  I used to use pdfcreator from sourceforge, but it seems as of the latest version, they’ve sold out. So this led me on a search for a new solution.  The solution is from bullzip.com and works really quite well. I would…

Recommended Products I use these for all my clients.

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Percy Kwong

Supermicro Motherboards – They work well and have proven chipsets. 3Ware RAID Cards: They’re one of the best in the industry.  They work and I’ve never lost data with them. Remember to buy the battery backup option. Supermicro Cases: Talk about seriously over-engineered cases.  They cool well and are built to last. Quality beyond anything…

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