4 Common Server Setups For Your Web Application

There are so, so, many possibilities you may consider when designing your infrastructure, each with its distinct advantages and disadvantages. Here we’ll cover 4 of the most popular combinations, and explain the pros and cons of each. To start with, take the following bullet points and think for a moment how your architecture may differ […]

Cyber Security Awareness Month 2017

Dogsbody Technology is happy to be a champion of National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) to get everyone thinking about their security online. Online safety is our shared responsibility, and it starts with STOP. THINK. CONNECT. STOP: make sure security measures are in place. THINK: about the consequences of your actions and behaviours online. CONNECT: and […]

Setting up IPv6 on your EC2

This is the second part of a two part series on setting up IPv6 in Amazon Web Services (AWS).  The first part discussed setting up IPv6 in your AWS VPC.  This second part will discuss setting up IPv6 on your EC2 instances. Why there are no new IPv4 jokes? Because it is exhausted! Seeing as […]

Setting up IPv6 in your AWS VPC

This is the first part of a two part series on setting up IPv6 in Amazon Web Services (AWS).  This first part discusses setting up IPv6 in your AWS VPC.  The second part will discuss setting up IPv6 on your EC2 instances. The IPv6 revolution is happening and you need to be a part of […]

Have you been pwned?

Last week Troy Hunt publicised that a spam list of 711 million user records including email addresses and passwords had been leaked. “Just for a sense of scale, that’s almost one address for every single man, woman and child in all of Europe.” Obviously this isn’t the first (and unfortunately) it won’t be the last […]

Surviving A “Hug of Death”

One of the wonders of the modern internet is the ability to share content and have it accessible from anywhere in the world instantly. This allows the spread of information to take place at unparalleled speeds, and can result in a sort of virtual flash mob where something gets very popular very quickly without the […]