Issue 94 — December 7, 2016
A look at how some popular managed DNS services have been vulnerable to a particular security flaw, and what remedies have occurred.
Matthew Bryant
Amazon takes a step into the mass-market VPS world with a new service that offers up servers with persistent storage and bandwidth at a low price.
Amazon Web Services
Couple together AWS, a Twilio account, and 15 minutes of your time and build a simple downtime notification system of your own.
Nick Malcolm
See the power of Linode and run any distribution you want on our superb hardware. With a free $20 offer, you'll have plenty of time to see what you can do with the power of Linode.
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Both earlier this year and last Xmas key services suffered major DDoS attacks. Cloudflare looks at what they’re seeing going on with DDoS attacks right now.
Cloudflare
By default it shows about 50 popular services but you can log in to customize them.
isserviceup.​com
Ansible roles to deploy PHP, Python, Ruby, etc, apps in a Capistrano style.
Ansistrano
Provides an out-of-box, highly available, easy-to-deploy setup.
Nandor Sivok
Real-time insights of everything happening on your Linux systems with nteractive web dashboards and performance and health alarms. Open source. Live demo here.
Costa Tsaousis
A look at what DNS ‘glue’ is, how it works, and why it’s necessary, before examining problems glue records can cause with DDoS mitigation techniques.
Marek Majkowski
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In brief
This makes GoDaddy the market leader for small business cloud services in Europe. The popular UK domain registrar 123Reg was also part of the sale.
GoDaddy
One region only for now.
Amazon
Amazon Web Services
Amazon
Docker
How do you build a process to monitor data that gives you status updates and stays ahead of issues? Here’s what we did at Incapsula.
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Kris Nova
Scott Hanselman
Eden Maslawi
Channel 9
Adam Bien
Linux.​com
Brian Wheeler
Quickly pinpoint what’s broken and why. Get the context and insights to defeat all Node errors.
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launchpad.​net
Both a simple service, and an open source project to run your own.
Seth Vincent
Nuveo
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