Use AWS CLI to automate the removal and addition of instances in your ELB

Hello! Sometimes its necessary to automate the removal and addition of instances in your elastic load balancer. Perhaps for the purposes of auto scaling or deploying updates to your web application. Either way, there is many tools at the disposal of the systems administrator to automate this process. Below we will share some simple steps […]

https://www.stackstar.com/use-aws-cli-automate-removal-addition-instances-elb/ Varnish Caching with Joomla

Hello There! One of the exciting new technologies to come out in the last few years is a tremendously efficient and dynamic caching system called Varnish (see : http://www.varnish-cache.org). We have been employing the use of Varnish for high traffic websites for the purposes of user experience improvements as well as for redundancy and load […]

https://www.stackstar.com/varnish-caching-with-joomla/ Foundry Load Balancers HTTP sticky sessions

This post is intended to be a general guide for configuring “stickied” load balanced HTTP servers. Whether it’s F5 load balancers, foundry load balancers or open source based load balancers (keepalived/lvs), the concepts are the same and can be migrated across said platforms. If you have a paid of foundry’s and are looking to configure […]

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