The new Sirportly blog
Welcome to our new Sirportly blog! We've been rather lax with updates on our old blog but we hope to change all that. We have a number of new updating...
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Keeping track of config changes
Although it's always been easy to find out what code has changed whenever you deploy, it's not been possible to see what configuration you might have changed between deployments or...
MySQL Indexing Explained
In the time we've been assisting people with hosting their web applications, the most common reason we've seen for performance problems has been missing or incorrectly used database indexes, so...
X-Request‑ID
X-Request-ID support means that you can easily trace an HTTP request all the way from a client to your backend web processes (via our proxies).
Forcing SSL on custom domains
If you've configured SSL for one of our custom domains, you may want to ensure that all visitors to your site are forced onto a secure connection. Usually, you could...
Now with full IPv6 support
After a few months of poking, proding and testing we're very pleased to say that the Viaduct platform now fully supports IPv6 across the whole platform (including your applications, myViaduct...
Backups for hobby databases
Today we're launching our new database backup feature. This allows you to simply enable backups for any of your hobby/dev databases and we'll automatically take and store historical dumpfiles of...
Production database lifecycle
Our production databases provide you with a fault-tolerant platform for storing all your application data. In this post, I just wanted to outline exactly how these databases run and what...
Home‑made crunchie ice cream
With Christmas fast approaching and with indulgence and over-eating very much part of the holiday, I made one of my favourite desserts — Crunchie Ice Cream. This is a bit of an...
Hosting Static HTML Websites
We've just pushed a new template to Viaduct which allows you easily deploy static websites to Viaduct. A static website is any folder which contains HTML files (plus any assets...
Christmas 2014
It's coming up to Christmas time here at aTech HQ. We'll be closed for the Christmas period from 24th December until 2nd January. During this time, you won't be able...
Christmas 2014
It's coming up to Christmas time here but nothing will really will change for Viaduct users. Our systems are monitored 24/7/265 and should anything occur our team will be on...