Deploying highly available web servers in a VPC on IBM Cloud

I frequently get a lot of questions on how to go about setting up a VPC in IBM Cloud so I decided to make a video out of it. In the video below I step through how to create a VPC, how to deploy 3 Virtual Server Instances across multiple Availability Zones to run Apache

IBM Cloud – Classic vs VPC Networks

 In an earlier post, I wrote about how I needed to create a squid proxy server to get access to the internet from a server in my IBM Cloud Classic private network. What I want to do in this post is dive a bit deeper into the Classic network architecture and how that compares to

Setting up a Squid Proxy on Centos 8 in IBM Cloud

Squid is an open-source proxy server that can support a wide variety of protocols such as HTTP and HTTPS. One of its uses is as a cache in front of large websites to accelerate the delivery of content. In my use case I used it as a forward proxy for outgoing HTTP requests to the