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AWS S3 storage classes pricing is not what you think

Since publishing this post, AWS reached out to us about the RR pricing. See bottom of the post for the update.

When storing data in S3, at some point everyone asks the question about storage classes. At first glance it looks more or less simple - if you’re accessing your data less often, or it’s not very important, you can pay less. Until you look into details, find all the asterisks and compare the actual numbers.

First thoughts after AWS Certified Security - Specialty BETA exam

Last week I made an attempt at passing one of the new AWS Specialty exams - Security.

Why I give to FreeBSD Foundation

When the year comes to and end, it’s the final chance to help your favourite open source project!

DHCP implementation in... PHP

PHP is not usually used to implement network services - and generally for good reasons. Not because it can’t be done, but rather because it’s not what it was meant to be used for. Although, if you think that PHP simply can’t be used for anything other than serving your blog, think again. Because my DHCP implementation in PHP seems to work quite well!

Yet another utility capsicumised!

I’m pleased to announce that the work on sandboxing the dd utility using Capsicum framework has been successfully completed and from today it’s available in FreeBSD-CURRENT.