With all the recent publicity regarding Internet spying, there has been a renewed interest in security and encryption. One oft-neglected feature of SSL is the ability to use a cipher with Diffie-Hellman key exchange that enables so-called perfect forward secrecy. The advantage of PFS is that even if your private key is compromised, recorded past […]
This is the world’s only existing simple example of an Openswan / Libreswan VPN between two Amazon EC2 VPCs. At least it seems that way after many fruitless searches today. We recently needed to link a client’s two VPCs together using a VPN and decided to use Libreswan instead of OpenVPN. Since there’s a dearth […]
Having your site’s search results indexed is a bad SEO practice. Here’s another simple Magento fix that I didn’t find clearly documented elsewhere. In fact, I found broken plugins that purport to accomplish this for you. In your local.xml, simply add the following to your section: NOINDEX,FOLLOW NOINDEX,FOLLOW
I haven’t written any articles in a while, and thought I should write a quick one about a Magento ‘fix’ I needed to do today. Magento isn’t the cleanest and most straight-forward software to extend, so I usually find myself doing a quick search to see if anyone has already tackled whatever customization a customer […]
We do a lot of web site tuning, and have been since before it became the routine. A while back, we were asked to tune a Magento and WordPress installation running on a virtual machine at a budget host (see our warnings about that on our cloud providers page.). We thought it might be useful […]