Archive for July, 2008

Simple email analysis

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

I was asked a simple question this week about the composition of email....basically, what percentage of email is spam? I have seen stats on this several times before...but I decided to look into this myself. I decided to run some simple tests and produce some stats on a portion of the ...

What are the business benefits of IaaS?

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

I was asked to summarise the benefits of IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) to the business community over traditional server deployments. I can only answer this from my personal prospective...but as a small business owner I can tell you that the benefit in IaaS is: in allowing startups access to infrastructure ...

How to scale a web site…very basic example using AWS.

Friday, July 11th, 2008

I was asked by a friend how I would setup a website in a scalable way using Amazon Web Services (AWS). The website will have a service where it will take file uploads from users, process them and make the result publically available on the website. It is expected that this ...