Archive for February, 2009
Optimizing Website integration with Amazon’s S3 Service
Saturday, February 28th, 2009At Participatory Culture Foundation we use Amazon’s S3 Service to host our static content — css, js, and images. This accomplishes two things — it improves the performance for our visitors since Amazon has faster performance and reliability then we can afford on our own servers, and it does so at a lower cost. In [...]
Passwords and Data Mining
Friday, February 27th, 2009I believe the working assumption must be we’re under a persistent, long term attack by organized groups. This is not just organized crime, but I suspect organized criminal groups that are tolerated by states like Russia and China if not outright state sponsored. It’s not just those old “boogey men” either — there are many [...]
We’re back
Friday, February 27th, 2009Finally had some time to recover from the security breach IXWebhosting had in December and clean up infected files and re-upload them. IXWebhosting truly disappointed me. While I don’t expect exceptional customer service from a relatively inexpensive hosting company, don’t tell me I have a trojan on my computer that compromised my password when your [...]