(powerDNS)[https://www.powerdns.com] it’s a great alternative for huge and bulky BIND server. Light footprint, and quick setup made that server as my obvious choice for slave server for primary BIND server. So let’s config begins:

PHP is easy. You don’t have to know type of variable, before you use it. But sometimes it’s very problematic especially when we are dealing with JSON.

Biggest advantage with AWS – EC2 service, is that you are paying for each minute of usage. So – why run instances 24/7 if you need them only for 12 hours par day ? You can just start and stop whenever you need them. Obviously we don’t want to forgot to shutdown our instance, or start when we need it. Here is a simple recipe how to automate whole task

Mailgun is well known service provider which allows you send emails via their API or just using regular SMTP servers. SMTP protocol is bit slower, but it’s so common that you can use it everywhere. Each modern application allows you define your own SMTP server to send emails. But… we love speed, SMTP from it’s nature it’s bit slower then regular API call.