Edge Cloud

Edge Cloud is a personal blog about various technical subjects, especially data centers, virtualization, networking and cloud computing.

Christian Elsen

Technology Generalist

Processing Flowroute text messages with AWS Lambda

May 16, 2016 7 minute read #AWS

Flowroute provides a great API for sending and receiving text messages. This blog post shows you how to use AWS Lambda to process these messages.

CloudFlare Railgun on AWS

February 17, 2016 13 minute read #AWS, #Cloudflare

Instructions for configuring a highly available CloudFlare Railgun setup within Amazon Web Services (AWS), using ElastiCache, AutoScaling and Elastic Load Ba...

RUM “Light” with CloudFlare and Google Analytics

February 5, 2016 7 minute read #Cloudflare, #Google-Analytics, #HTTP/2, #IPv6

Would you like to know the ratio of visitors accessing your website over IPv4 vs. IPv6? Or curious about how many visitors you serve over HTTP/2 vs. SPDY or ...

CloudFlare: Redirect to Social Media on origin failure

January 15, 2016 3 minute read #Cloudflare

How to redirect your CloudFlare powered website to your Social Media site, when the origin has failed.

Track your CloudFlare PoPs usage in Google Analytics

October 4, 2015 5 minute read #Cloudflare, #Google-Analytics

CloudFlare provides a content delivery network and distributed domain name server services to help secure and accelerate websites. This cloud-based service s...