Contents tagged with Cloud
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DevOps. What does it mean?
What does DevOps mean? Like many terms, there are a variety of slightly different (in some cases vastly different) definitions. The current definition per Wikipedia seems pretty good: “DevOps is a software development method that stresses communication, collaboration and integration …
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WordPress on Win08, Win12, and CentOS+NGINX
So… I’ve been reading a lot about nginx and how awesome it performs. It sounds magical! The Issue My blog (running WordPress) hasn’t been running as fast as I (or Google) would like. The TTFB (time to first bite) is …
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Can you run WordPress on Windows? Sure, it works great!
Did you know that WordPress works – and works great – on Microsoft Windows? Sure, WordPress runs on top of PHP and MySQL, which are commonly thought to be related to Linux, but they work perfectly on Windows Server also. …
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Installing Windows 2012 Server Core plus IIS8
Installing Windows 2012 Server Core plus IIS8 isn’t as hard as you might think. At least it isn’t as hard as I thought! Server Core can be intimidating to long-time Windows users who expect to see the comfortable familiarity of …
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Configuring Microsoft’s SMTP Service to allow relay
My recent post on Installing the Microsoft IIS SMTP Service on Windows Server 2008 helps people get up-and-running with a local SMTP service to support the sending of emails from code (i.e.: C# Sample For Sending Emails). Just getting the …
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Installing the Microsoft IIS SMTP Service on Windows Server 2008
The most popular blog post on my site is how to send email to ASP.NET (C# code sample). It seems that a recurring question/comment on that post though is from people with issues with the code being rejected when trying …