You should protect paypal more than other web passwords. Paypal has REAL money behind it, not just some photos or email. here are a few tips. 1. dont repeat a password used elsewhere for paypal the FIRST things hackers do, it test any hacked passwords against paypal, and attempt to empty your account. 2. strong password make […]
Need the perfect fake ID – look no further. Every week I see some sort of new scam on facebook. The tools and avenues available to people for scamming is astounding. This is the most insidious URL I have come across in a while. Imagine, your an internet scammer, you need a new ID for every scam. […]
It seems amazon had a cloud outage of up to 72 hours. It was something to do with their storage servers, something failed in one data centre, it started to re-replicate from other data centres. The re-replication overloaded other storage servers, and the network between them. The outage then began to effect more data centres, […]
This is a big deal Aussie website, hosted by rackspace. I enquired with rackspace, and this is the conversation … oops …. glad its not my website. They probably do have good uptime, but no-one is perfect. You need to have plans around a supplier outage, and also have plans to move to another provider […]
Lots of people have heard about backing up to the cloud. Many are aware of amazon S3 and similar. Here are some better ways to plan it. For Safer you need to look toward encryption and multiple copies. For Durable you need either multiple copies, or other strategies. For Responsive you need to think about […]
This is not a funky – ‘did you know’ vid – its realistic, business focussed, numbers of users, $$$ involved. Some take outs : – android is outselling iphone. – Apple is worth more than either google and facebook, $283billion , 67% revenue growth – facebook/twitter advertising is proportionately cheap still , compared to other media – […]
Lots of people focus on the shared nature of cloud computing. There are other risks, some are really simple. Contractual Issues – like what happens when you are late on payment, or your credit card transaction gets bounced. You might think that taking your website down isn’t correct. You could find out you lose everything, […]
They are both very different, and both very good in the right situations. Firstly, google can target users actively looking to buy, with keyword searches. This is the bread&butter of google adwords. These are high value customers, and generally there is strong competition, and the prices are high. If you have a good budget, this […]