by Dennis Clayton | Aug 10, 2016 | Cloud Computing, Cool Stuff, Linode, Linux, Review, Software, Technical, Ubuntu, Virtualization, Web, Wordpress
Earlier this year, I decided to make the leap to PHP 7 prior to it officially becoming a part of my servers distribution (I run Ubuntu). It has probably been the easiest and best change I have made to my personal server stack in a number of years. Granted, it...
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 | Jan 27, 2010 | Apple, Cloud Computing, Gadgets, General, Software, Technical, Technology, Web
Finally Apple’s tablet device has been officially announced. Steve Jobs just now got done with the presentation finished. Here are some basic specs… 1/2 inch thin, 1.5 pounds, ~9.7 inch high rez display, 1ghz Apple A4 chip… New Apple chip that...
by Dennis Clayton | Apr 23, 2009 | Cloud Computing, General, Linux, Review, Software, Technical, Technology, Ubuntu, Web
I ran across a webserver called Cherokee a week or so ago while looking around for “light” alternatives to Apache on VPSes. It looked pretty nice, so I downloaded it and compiled the latest version 0.99.9 and started it up. The nicest thing, I think,...