Security Tips for Private Network Interfaces

Regardless of the type of hosting you're using – dedicated or cloud – it's important to take network interface security seriously. Most often, threats from the internet are the only ones mentioned. However, if you share a private network with other customers, you have just as much risk on that interface.

Many cloud providers, including Rackspace, allow you access to a private network environment where you can exchange data with other instances or other services offered by the provider. The convenience of this access comes with a price: other instances can access your instance on the private network just as easily as they could on the public interface.

Major Hayden, Linux Systems Engineer here at Rackspace has put together some tips for you to consider when using the private network and you can review them online.

Choosing the Right Database: There is No Silver Bullet

Database needs have changed significantly over the last few years. Data sets continue to grow at exponential rates and now tend to be measured in terabytes and petabytes for many applications. There are many new database alternatives that have sprung up in the past few years to help solve this problem.

The question becomes how do you choose which one to use?

There's no perfect solution for every single use case out there, but spending the time analyzing your options ahead of time can save you headaches and frustration down the road.

Bret Piat, Sr. Manager of Technical Alliances here at Rackspace took some time to help explain how you might want to go about considering your next database. Check out his thoughts online.

我爱你们！

宇宙是一条大河
那么多转瞬即逝的浪花
我是最普通的一朵
你我青春的撞击
飞溅出多少故事
忘记的不会被遗忘
镌刻成光年的留影

Google牛在哪里

用五笔的童鞋，你们懂的

饱满的失落

我们总在寻找，但却不知道到底少了什么。。。

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搭讪奇遇记

1. 某日在车站等公车回家，过去三趟，一趟都没回来，其间有个mm也来等车，于是借机搭讪，抱怨车咋还不来云云。。车终于来了，于是一起上车。人很少，找个空位坐下，那个mm跑来坐我前面侧过身问我在哪里上班，心想有戏，聊了一会顺利拿到手机号码。

后来一周一直短信聊天，直到有一天发了好几条短信没见回。突然一个陌生的号码发来一条短信：去你妈的、你给我老婆发短信想死啊

2. 有一回送完一个朋友回高新，天下着小雨，像雾一样的，空气很好，车少人稀，走在街上很舒服，就想散步回家。穿过一个小公园，看到一个ppmm坐在树下也不打伞。犹豫了两圈，最后向她走过去。我问你在等人呢，她说是啊，我说这是上班时间吧，怎么没去上班吗，她说她不上班，我问那你等的人来了吗，她说来了，我就诧异，你等到了咋还在这坐着呢。。后来还聊些啥我都忘了，问她要电话号码时她左右推委说她是外地人，她不是我想象中的那样。。。我继续诧异那我想象中她啥样呢啊。。小坚持了一下还是不行，于是放弃，互道拜拜。。。。。

走了一会才反应过来，今天搭讪搭上站街女了。。。

3. 第一次搭讪也很有趣。发生在医学院生活区的食堂外面。吃晚饭时旁边有个桌子坐着个很好看的mm，偷偷看她好多回，我感觉她应该发现了。我吃完先出来，作了无数思想斗争要不要搭讪呢。后来怒了，我就不信。又往回走，在食堂出口外面等她。见她出来了，像敢死队员一样往上冲，把排练了一百遍的台词一字不差的说出来，紧张得要死。说到一半时，旁边面屋出来个男的站到她身边，诧异地看着我。。。我那个尴尬呀，硬着头皮把台词挤完了，最后那mm笑咯咯地说，对不起我有男朋友了。。。我说那不好意思，抽身就闪，头也不敢回。。

傻到家了。。

RP暴发 - STSM一次单刷出军马

今天想去试试单刷STSM，其间迷路两次。先是一下走到血色区，心想男爵不是在这，就退回来，发现镇长换位置了，和他交涉了一下，拿了钥匙，三个boss打了就进广场，杀完胖子一看门老是不开，等了一会，以为是BUG，想走，突然看到红色字幕，回头是四个精英骷髅向我逼来。。。原来把它们忘了。。三下五除二杀完就去见男爵。。三分钟后战斗结束，出了军马。。。

不要老想着要把事情做多好

不要老想着把事情做得多好，要超过谁谁谁。这只会徒增心理负担和失败后的挫败感。

只管happy地去做就行了，不要有所期望。

赢不难，难的是输得起

你好好考哦，我等你6月份考完了回来和你们耍，兰军姐也回来了。

现在把高考都研究成精了，我也没啥好帮你的，到时报志愿的时候我们可以一起研究。。

反正考场上找到洒脱的感觉就不会错了，游刃有余，但不是因为题目简单。尤其是理科和数学，遇到“难”题你就当出题老师二百五，选不管它，把简单明了考基础的题先做完。

不要想一定要考上什么学校或者专业，徒增压力。无数的事实证明这些全是浮云。是强者终是强者，，，，弱者再拿名份修饰自己还是个弱者。。。不要太在乎结果，才可能有最好的发挥。。赢不难，难的是输得起。。

管他未来

我们都曾经是星尘。。。

How to Get an Email Address With My Own Domain Name?

So instead of just signing up with 3rd free email services such as hotmail.com or gmail.com and end up with the same domain name part in your email address with everyone else, you want to try something new, that is to have your own domain name and use your own domain name to set up an email address for yourself?

If the answer is yes, you've come to the right solution. Just follow me through the steps listed below.

1. You will need to register a domain name. There are a lot of places to register a domain name but to find the cheapest vendor, you got do a little homework or just listen to my tip at the end of the article.

2. After you have registered the domain name, you will need to set the 3 name servers of your domain to ns1.dreamhost.com, ns2.dreamhost.com, ns3.dreamhost.com.

3. Sign up for a shared hosting account at dreamhost by the coupon I have at the end of this article so you can save $70.

4. After you have become the user of dreamhost, go to domain manager, add your domain registered at step 1 to the system.

5. Go to Google Apps cpanel page and add the domain name you registered at step 1. Follow the steps through to create your apps account with Google.

6. Google Apps will ask you to change some DNS settings for your domain, but you don't have to do that because the reason I chose dreamhost in this is that they automatically do the dirty work for you when you were adding the domain name. Cool, huh?

7. Create a user from Google Apps under your own domain by the Add User link. This is the email you are going to use. Note that there is a limit of 50 accounts per Google Apps free version license.

8. After creation and specifying the user name and password, you can log in into your own email under your own domain at Google.

9. The interface is just like that of Gmail. Very easy and intuitive to use yet you have your very own email under your own domain name!

When you are signing up with the shared hosting, make sure you provide the DreamHost promo code to get $70 discount off the first year which is a rather generous promotional discount. Other than this, you may also find the Cloud servers review useful in finding a great host.