by Dennis Clayton | Apr 23, 2014 | Cloud Computing, Cool Stuff, Good Things, Linode, Linux, Review, Technical, Technology, Ubuntu, Updates, Virtualization
I know I talk about Linode a lot on my site here, but they are my faithful VPS hosting provider, so I want to support them as much as possible. Recently, Linode made the jump to SSD drives for VPS and at the same time, doubled the RAM for them. SSD drives are not new...
by Dennis Clayton | Apr 25, 2013 | Cloud Computing, Cool Stuff, General, Good Things, Linux, Review, Software, Technical, Technology, Ubuntu, Virtualization, Web, Wordpress
Linode has invested over a million dollars into upgrading their network, servers and bandwidth to levels that are unparalleled when it comes to all the features they have already made available to subscribers. There are three parts to the “Nextgen” upgrade...
by Dennis Clayton | Jun 29, 2011 | Cloud Computing, General, Linux, Microsoft, Review, Software, Technical, Technology, Ubuntu, Virtualization, Web
When I started hosting websites for clients, I hosted them in-house, literally, in my house. This was nice because I had direct control over the servers and could quickly fix them or migrate data if there were hardware failures. But obviously, it does not scale very...
by Dennis Clayton | May 4, 2011 | Apple, Cloud Computing, Email, General, Good Things, iPad, iPhone, Software, Technical, Technology, Web
Dear Steve Jobs, I feel that with the “death” of the XServe Server and the uncertain future of Mac OS X Server OS, Apple should delve into offering hosted services to pull in entities who are now scattered among numerous other services such as Google Apps...
by Dennis Clayton | Apr 11, 2011 | Cloud Computing, Technical, Technology, Virtualization
Sometimes you don’t need a full blown web hosting environment with MySQL, PHP and other dynamic components. Sometimes you just need to host a static website.We can host static websites on one of our normal servers and support quite a large number of hits, but...
by Dennis Clayton | Jun 8, 2010 | Apple, Cell Phones, Cloud Computing, General, iPhone, Technical, Technology
Looks like the new iPhone has officially been announced. As usual, it looks like and the new features are excellent, features we wanted are still missing and logical things that Apple could do like make MobileMe free (to spur wider use) still haven’t...