Merry Christmas everyone from all of us at Xavier Media! Don’t miss out on all our special offers at eXavier.com. Did you for example know that you can get a brand new .CO domain name for only $9.99 for the first year until Jan 1, 2014, or that you can get …

This Saturday and Sunday (9th and 10th of November) we will move the Exchange Rate API to new servers. As a result there will be an experimental new service (see below).

If you run for example WordPress or something else that’s heavily depending on a lot of MySQL resources to run, you don’t want to wake up every morning and notice that your MySQL database has crashed again…. So to make sure the server would restart MySQL every time it fails …

IAM (AWS Identity and Access Management) enables you to manage access to your Amazon resources and give access to specific resources for users. In my case I wanted to give a customer access to a S3 bucket, but I didn’t want them to see all the other buckets (none of …

Just a quick heads up that there will be some changes in the near future to the Exchange Rate API as we move our servers over to the Amazon cloud. We will try to keep backward compatibility where possible.

To collect all information about our APIs and other services for our developers we’ve decided to create a new site simply called Xavier Media Developers Network. This way we can collect everything for developers who want to use our services at one place, namely developers.xaviermedia.com At the moment we’ve just …

Welcome to a new blog that I created after starting to use the Amazon cloud. I noticed that even if you’ve been using servers, shared web hosting accounts and been doing some PHP and MySQL programming before you start using the Amazon cloud services, it’s not as easy as just …

Solar panels are becoming the latest must-have items and it seems like all the cool kids are getting them. Are you thinking about keeping up with the Joneses? You have probably heard how wonderful solar panels are and you might even feel like you’re going to single-handedly save the planet …

On Monday Altavista was closed by Yahoo! and an era came to an end.