The importance of DNS servers to maximize CDN use
CDNs aims to bring web contents closer to the user to obtain low latency, maximum speed and the improve the user experience. To achieve it in a transparent manner and before the request reaches the web...
View ArticleTutorial: Creating a CDN for WordPress with CloudFront and S3
We already improved our WordPress’ performance and content loading speed using Elasticache in a prior tutorial. Now we’re going one step forward by locating those contents closer to our users in order...
View ArticleS3 Management Tools
AWS’s S3 object storage service (and it’s related service Glacier) is very useful to store and backup files on the cloud. To make object management easier, a number of tools have been created, some of...
View ArticleTutorial: Highly Available WordPress (Part I)
Please not that we have since published an updated version of this tutorial Unfortunately, things fail from time to time, including our applications’ servers. A connectivity problem at the...
View ArticleWelcome to Celingest Blog: A year after
It’s been a year since we started authoring Celingest Blog, it was a very busy one, full of satisfactions for the success obtained by some of our posts and their diffusion in the web. In this article...
View ArticleCloudFront: Configuring custom error pages
We already know that CloudFront can deliver dynamic and static web content to end users with low latency and high data transfer speeds but someone could have missed the recently added feature that...
View ArticleTutorial: Using CORS with CloudFront and S3
CORS, or Cross-Origin Resource Sharing, is a mechanism that allows a browser to show the resources of a domain that are referenced from a different domain. This applies, for example, to Javascript...
View ArticleTutorial Update: Creating a CDN for WordPress with CloudFront and S3
We already improved our WordPress performance and content loading speed using Elasticache in a previous tutorial. Now we’re going one step forward by locating those contents closer to our users in...
View ArticleCloud Architecture 101: Scalability DON’TS
We hear a lot of talk about the scalability, resilience and fault tolerance of cloud platforms, but it’s all hearsay if the overlying applications are not designed with failure in mind. This post lists...
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