We had a system wide failure this morning around 0400CST. I wanted to explain what happened. What happened? In a nutshell, some line of communication between our account manager and the DC ops team at Rackspace got messed up. We had scheduled a major maintenance window on February 22nd, but someone how DC ops thought… Read more »
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HostingCon 2012 – CloudFlare Conversation with Vid Luther from ZippyKid
It’s not often we’re able to get Vid in front of a camera (he looks super natural, doesn’t he?), but he was captured at HostingCon 2012 in Boston. Good stuff covered in this quick hitting interview including 1) ZippyKid is growing like crazy, 2) some killer investors and advisors from Rackspace, Slicehost and 500 Startups… Read more »
Worst Week Ever – Growing pains at ZippyKid
I’m sorry for the worst week ever, in the history of ZippyKid, and it’s happy customers. We’ve been having slow downs and downtime across the board. We’ve isolated the problem down to a strained and maxed out Firewall, which is operating at 80% CPU capacity, and near full limits of it’s bandwidth capability. We’re working very closely… Read more »
Celebrating Thanksgiving 2011 at ZippyKid
Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, I’ve asked everyone in the company to take the weekend off. That means it’ll be me alone who’ll try and answer tickets, and solve issues if and when they arise. So, apologies in advance, if the level of support goes down, or sucks, I know with between Kai, Roberto and… Read more »
How to setup a Rackspace Cloud Load Balancer to serve SSL
This post should explain how to setup an SSL site that’s load balanced across your web nodes using Cloud Load Balancers, and nginx on your web heads. This assumes you know how to setup the following: Nginx with an SSL vhost Verify that the vhost is working, by using an ssh tunnel Test that your… Read more »
Nginx, Rackspace Load Balancers, and Real ips
If you want to get the IP of the visitor in your Nginx logs, and you’re using Rackspace Load Balancers, you need to look at the Nginx Real Ip page. From there, the basic thing you need to do is in your http block http { set_real_ip_from 10.X.X.X; real_ip_header X-CLUSTER-CLIENT-IP; …… } This is… Read more »
ZippyKid – One year later, history, reflections, and future
Today is a milestone for us, and I’d like to invite you all for a trip down memory lane. According to my records, yesterday was the one year anniversary of the ZippyKid website and company name. I purchased the logo and domain name from Brandstack, on May 22nd 2010. Technically, the company started at SXSW… Read more »
Long term goals of ZippyKid
I’ve been fairly busy and quiet for the past few months, I wanted to stop that trend and give people some background on what’s going on. I’m having the time of my life, as some of you know, I’ve been closing down my consulting business, and ramping up ZippyKid. Lately, I’ve been approached by some… Read more »
How to test your WordPress Cache
The images above show you how to analyze the effectiveness of your cache. Our previous post on How to make WordPress Fastertalked about caching static content, using Mod Pagespeed, and Nginx. The question becomes, how do you measure the effectiveness of your cache? Turns out it’s fairly easy with Safari. If you look at the… Read more »
Why we use Chargify
this post is going to make me sound like a fanboi.. I apologize We’re in the business of making sure your WordPress site stays up, loads fast, and doesn’t serve viagra ads while it’s doing that. Installing WordPress is easy, using it is even easier, that’s why it’s so popular. Keeping it secure and fast… Read more »
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