This is a quick example of how to write a quick bash script to use iptables to configure netfilter for port forwarding purposes. This sometimes comes in handy if you need to forward a non standard service/port through a standard port, also a slew of other use cases.
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How to Port Forward using netfilter/iptables
Velocity: The Ultimate Web Performance and Operations Conference
Last month, I attended O’Reilly’s Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference and, without fail, the information I came away with reinforced existing VMIX initiatives and strategies, and inspired new ones. [...]
16 Million Objects Totaling 61 Terabytes – Yes, We Believe Amazon S3 Can Scale!
As Director of Systems Engineering for VMIX, it is my job—my department’s job—to scale our infrastructure to meet our clients’ needs, ensuring a high level of service availability and performance.
And each year that goes by, our online video platform usage grows at a pace that could give anyone an ulcer, especially if you don’t come up with a creative solution to scale.
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Amazon EC2 64-bit CentOS 5.3 Base Public AMI ‘s
I have had a lot of people request me to make a public base CentOS 5.3 64-bit EC2 AMI in all the AWS Regions. I can understand some of you would like to fire up a base instance and then make modifications and snapshot them into your own custom AMI’s. So I finally found some time to build some and here they are! You can find them from the AWS EC2 Management Console under Public AMI’s or via command line methods.
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