Today was published my fifth article in the official Blog of Alibaba Cloud, named “Hosting Multiple Websites on a Single Alibaba Cloud ECS Server the DevOps Way“. If you want to have a look, you can find it in the following link: Hosting Multiple Websites on a Single Alibaba Cloud ECS Server the DevOps Way […]

With this How-To I want to talk about Best Practices using Alibaba Cloud deploying a new website/webapp to their infrastructure, also covering the implementation of the maintenance. The article is going to focus on the deployment from a pure DevOps perspective, as Alibaba Cloud is a platform with all the potential for you to use the […]

Hoy se ha publicado, en SBS Radio, cómo Carmenza Jimenez y yo hablamos ayer respecto a la conexión de banda ancha australiana conocida como NBN en una sección del programa creada como guía para el inmigrante.   En la entrevista realizada en la edición en Español de la australiana SBS Radio explico brevemente cómo funciona […]

Docker makes it easy to ship your applications and services in containers so you can run them anywhere. The more you work with Docker it’s also easy to accumulate a huge number of unused images, containers, and data volumes in your filesystem that clutter the output and consume a lot of precious disk space. Docker, […]

Today was published my third article in the official Blog of Alibaba Cloud, named “Setting Up Load Balancers Using Terraform“. If you want to have a look, you can find it in the following link: Setting Up Load Balancers Using Terraform  

Today was published my second article in the official Blog of Alibaba Cloud, named “Dynamic DNS using Alibaba Cloud DNS API“. If you want to have a look, you can find it in the following link: Dynamic DNS using Alibaba Cloud DNS API  

Today was published my first article in the official Blog of Alibaba Cloud, named “Run Bolt with Docker and Terraform with Alibaba Cloud“. If you want to have a look, you can find it in the following link: Run Bolt with Docker and Terraform with Alibaba Cloud  

As some of you may know, I recently moved all my services and infrastructure to Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun), being this one of the best decisions I made in 2017 in terms of Cloud Computing. I used several services in the past, from DreamHost to 1&1 and from AWS to DigitalOcean. So far, Alibaba Cloud is […]

WordPress uses the is_ssl() function to determine if SSL is being used in the server. In order to do this, it uses $_SERVER[‘HTTPS’] and $_SERVER[‘SERVER_PORT’] to check if they are set. The problem when you use a reverse proxy, like in almost all the installations I run, is that Apache serves the content in HTTP trough […]

I’ve been using iconping for years and it rocks. Sadly it doesn’t cater to all my needs and I was eager to contribute back. After seeing there are some pull requests and issues waiting for years, I decided to fork and incorporate all pull requests including my own. You can download iconpong from here.