End of Life for New Relic ‘Servers’ – What are your options?
Today (14 Nov 2017) New Relic are making their ‘Alerts’ and ‘Server’ services end of life (EOL). This will impact anyone who used this service to monitor server resources such as CPU, Memory, Disk Space and Disk IO. All existing alert policies will cease from today. If you rely on these alerts to monitor your […]
4 Common Server Setups For Your Web Application
There are so, so, many possibilities you may consider when designing your infrastructure, each with its distinct advantages and disadvantages. Here we’ll cover 4 of the most popular combinations, and explain the pros and cons of each. To start with, take the following bullet points and think for a moment how your architecture may differ […]
Cyber Security Awareness Month 2017
Dogsbody Technology is happy to be a champion of National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) to get everyone thinking about their security online. Online safety is our shared responsibility, and it starts with STOP. THINK. CONNECT. STOP: make sure security measures are in place. THINK: about the consequences of your actions and behaviours online. CONNECT: and […]
Setting up IPv6 on your EC2
This is the second part of a two part series on setting up IPv6 in Amazon Web Services (AWS). The first part discussed setting up IPv6 in your AWS VPC. This second part will discuss setting up IPv6 on your EC2 instances. Why there are no new IPv4 jokes? Because it is exhausted! Seeing as […]
Setting up IPv6 in your AWS VPC
This is the first part of a two part series on setting up IPv6 in Amazon Web Services (AWS). This first part discusses setting up IPv6 in your AWS VPC. The second part will discuss setting up IPv6 on your EC2 instances. The IPv6 revolution is happening and you need to be a part of […]
Have you been pwned?
Last week Troy Hunt publicised that a spam list of 711 million user records including email addresses and passwords had been leaked. “Just for a sense of scale, that’s almost one address for every single man, woman and child in all of Europe.” Obviously this isn’t the first (and unfortunately) it won’t be the last […]