Best Practices

Using ZFS for snapshots is easier than collective.recipe.backup for backing up Plone sites. I'll show you how it allows you to instantly rollback to a previous version if something goes wrong.

Quick Guide to Generating SSL Certificates with Six Feet Up using our hosting or your own provider.

This is an introduction to how to use Diazo for Plone theming. Diazo allows you to map dynamic content from a CMS to a static theme. Diazo is supported in Plone 4.1 and beyond with plone.app.theming.

Six Feet Up inaugurates new PAQ (problems and questions) features on blog. Find out what issues other users are facing and how they fixed, the processes we use to fix them, and what you can expect moving forward.

SaltStack (Salt) is currently one of the fastest growing configuration management systems. It's written in Python and uses ZeroMQ to communicate nearly instantaneously with all of the servers in your infrastructure that it calls minions. Here is how we use Salt and why.

Web consolidation projects provide an incredible opportunity for cutting expenses, improving performance, and simplifying content management across websites. Here are 7 key factors to consider if consolidation is right for your organization.