Phillip B. Roberts

I've started my ramblings again…

As a person who has built his career primary on Red Hat Products, I am always interested in what the market demand is for people with strong Red Hat experience. This job graph shows some very cool information redgarding what Red Hat folks make. Check it out. I would love to hear what you think.

Are you a Red Hat professional? Let me know!

http://jobgraphs.com/redhat-linux/

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iOS 4iOS 4 is set to be released for iPhone 3G S users today at roughly 1 PM EST according to insiders. This much awaited release bring over 100 new features to the iPhone (some only available to iPhone 4 and 3GS users).

What features are you most looking forward too?

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I am excited, my iPhone 4 is on order!

iPhone 4 SpecsNot only do I have an iPhone 4 on order, iOS 4 comes out on Monday July 21, 2010 for users of the iPhone 3G S. The new iPhone software has many features to boast, foldres, unified inbox, iBooks, the ability to create play lists from your phone, 5x Digital Zoom, Faces and Places, to name a few, and one I am particularly excited about is multitasking.

Multitasking will be nice, one of my biggest annoyances with iPhone iOS is the requirement to always exit an application to use another application.

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I had initially installed the new site using WordPress 3.0 in a Multi-Domain configuration. This is a pretty cool new feature of WordPress 3.0. I came to find, this new feature of WordPress a bit of a pain to get working properly, and the work that had to be done in order to make each new domain work properly was a bit frustrating.

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WordPressWordPress has some pretty great plugins for integrating your website with Amazon AWS.

One of the key features which can be extremely important to your website is the speed and delivery of any uploaded media. This could range from images, to videos, to podcasts. Amazon S3 and CloudFront allow you to use their Content Delivery Network to offer media in a low latency fashion. You can read more about Amazons CloudFront service at http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/ in order to make Amazon CloudFront easier to use (almost automagic) you can use theAmazon S3 for WordPress Plugin. This plugin allows you to upload all of your media to an S3 Bucket for use with Amazon CloudFront.

AWS LogoAlong with the Amazon S3 for WordPress Plugin a nice plugin is the Amazon S3 URL Generator, this plugin allows for dynamic generation of expiring URLs to your media stored in S3. This protects your media from being hotlinked against.

Another important plugin for WordPress websites is the ability to maintain regular backups. I useWP S3 Backups plugin. This plugin allows you to define an S3 bucket to backup all important parts of your WordPress site, including your themes, database, plugins, settings, and media.

For all of our sites we use Amazon EC2 along with Amazon Elastic Load Balancing in order to provide highly available auto-scaling load balanced servers. This makes our websites highly available, and prepared to handle any traffic load thrown at it. Only the static WordPress files are maintained on these servers.

One final important peice of the puzzle is your database. As I stated before, our servers are only serving up the WordPress files. Our database is hosted in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). This allows us to maintain our database in a highly available, low latency environment that can be dynamically served from multiple datacenters based on geographical location.

Using these services can help make your website fast, highly available, and completely redundant and backed up.

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