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 | Sep 21, 2010 | Apple, Cell Phones, Cool Stuff, General, Linux, Microsoft, Review, Software, Technical, Technology, Ubuntu, Windows 7
Over the years, I have always swung back and forth between Microsoft, Apple, Linux, etc. I get into Open Source moods, then realize there’s something I need on one the more ‘closed’ platforms of Microsoft or Apple and lean back towards those. ...
by Dennis Clayton | Feb 2, 2010 | Cloud Computing, General, Microsoft, Review, Technical, Technology
As I’ve stated in the past, I’ve used a lot of different hosting providers and still have services remaining at most of them in some capacity. With Rackspace Cloud (formerly Mosso), I still have Cloud Files CDN service on standby in case I need...
by Dennis Clayton | Dec 31, 2009 | Cloud Computing, Cool Stuff, General, Linux, Microsoft, Review, Software, Technical, Technology, Ubuntu
Over the past few years, I’ve become a big fan of Virtualization technologies like VMWare, VirtualBox, XEN, Microsoft Hyper-V, etc. So much so that I moved ALL my hosting operations (20+ clients) to providers like Slicehost, Linode and CrystalTech for Hyper-V....
by Dennis Clayton | Oct 24, 2009 | General, Microsoft, Review, Software, Technical, Technology, Windows 7
First Install I am usually not big on Microsoft releases, but since Vista was a disappointment, and XP was getting old, I decided I would do something I’ve never done before. I actually purchased a version of Windows. Now don’t get me wrong, I have...
by Dennis Clayton | Mar 19, 2009 | Microsoft, Review, Software, Technical, Technology, Web
Microsoft’s new Internet Explorer 8.0 is just downright pitiful… To the extreme. After spending so much time “improving” IE8 to make it more standards compliant, it failed miserably. Screenshot (in native IE 8 mode) So I...
