We recently updated a test server to the latest WordPress 3.6, but it immediately failed, missing a “revision.php” file. The resulting upgrade took down the entire website. We are investigating the issue currently, but recommend that you do NOT update your WordPress to the latest version until we can find out more details. Update: The […]
Planning a successful Magento Enterprise Upgrade. Magento is a very complex and powerful shopping cart system. Customization comes at a price however, when it comes time to upgrade to the latest version of the platform. We’ve listed a few strategies below that have helped us plan, test and successfully upgrade clients with the least amount […]
During a very busy holiday weekend, one of our clients running their ecommerce site on Amazon EC2 ran into a rather large snag. Their order email confirmations to customers were being delayed and sometimes not being sent out for hours later.
Recently we had noticed that several of our success messages, such as “Product Name was successfully added to your cart”, where actually being added twice. Several other messages were also duplicated we had noticed. This was working fine on our development server and another upgrade instance. The only difference between our production and development servers […]
Mining Website Logs For Hidden Robots. We worked on a project recently, where we had found that a client’s entire site was screen scraped and put up at a different location without their permission. This of course led to a drop in search engine traffic as the new site was considered duplicate content. The client […]
The more we have gained experience on the OpenStack platform, the more we began wondering how large of a Rackspace cloud we could build on re-sold enterprise level hardware. This would be perfect for POC (proof of concept) labs, R&D computing development, or even a small office computing cloud. The goal was to get a […]
Recently we were working on a software integration project, whereby we were migrating a php based application onto a CentOS system from an Ubuntu system. The platform requires the ability to call out to GPG and decrypt certain text elements as part of its “data at rest” encryption policy. Prior to the move, the system […]
After performing a performance analysis on one of our client’s enterprise magento websites, we noticed that their .HTACCESS file was very large compared to what we typically see. Upon closer examination we noticed that there were more than 400+ redirects and re-writes that had been carried over from their previous ecommerce shopping cart systems. Based […]
A client asked us how we could back-port a small database from MSSQL2012 database back to a MSSQL 2008 database. We know there is direct method of doing this, other than through an obscure process called “Generate Scripts”. Essentially, it exports the database objects as SQL scripts, that are generic enough to be re-run on […]
Apparently there was some sort of global attack against a variety of hosting providers last night (4/11/2013) targetting users of WordPress. The massive botnet attack targeted WordPress accounts and went directly after the login screen. The performance degradation you experienced today was caused by a global attack against websites running the WordPress content managment system. The […]
