Improve Backups with S3

Improve Backups with S3

Perhaps the most important aspect of any system is the backup strategy. All sysadmins would agree that without good backups, it’s hard to sleep at night. Over the years, we have used many different backup strategies at Sourcetoad. My current favorite one is...
Picking a Domain Name – Hints and Tips

Picking a Domain Name – Hints and Tips

Every time you start a new project, or need to create a new business, you’re faced with the old question of, what should my domain name be? The problem is that finding a domain name is actually a lot harder than you would think. If your company is called...
The True Cost of AWS: Part 2

The True Cost of AWS: Part 2

Part one of this article discussed the downfalls of running a “VPS-style” site on a single AWS instance. It is strongly discouraged for any production site, by everyone familiar with AWS, including AWS itself. So, the question then arises as to how one is supposed to...
The True Cost of AWS Hosting: Part 1

The True Cost of AWS Hosting: Part 1

As we always like to tell our clients, Sourcetoad is not a devops company. That isn’t our core competency. However, that doesn’t mean we don’t know about devops and provide devops as ancillary services to some of our clients. We just don’t provide it as a main...