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 | Jan 29, 2009 | Cool Stuff, General, Other Blogs, Software, Wordpress
I love WordPress, but one thing that it’s not known for is having a really nice default theme. It is exceptionally plain. I’ve spent HOURS looking for nice functional themes only to download ones that “seem” nice then suck once you...
by Dennis Clayton | Jul 1, 2008 | Cool Stuff, Linux, Review, Software, Technical, Technology, Ubuntu, Web, Wordpress
I’ve been moving my blogs and the other’s I host through a lot of transitions lately after having a HORRIBLE experience with GoDaddy and then Compute Cycle concerns with Mosso.com. Mosso’s new compute cycles are heavily counting WordPress and other...
by Dennis Clayton | May 14, 2008 | Cool Stuff, Software, Technical, Technology, Wordpress
I have a contact form on my company’s website that I have had serious problems with in the past… The past being before I implemented Akismet into the code. Akismet is a service provided by Automattic (the creators of WordPress) and is an excellent API based spam...
by Dennis Clayton | Apr 28, 2008 | Cool Stuff, Linux, Microsoft, Software, Technology, Ubuntu, Wordpress
Last week, after much waiting by myself, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS came out. Before the release, I didn’t have the time to really mess around much with the BETAs or the last Release Candidate, but the morning it was released, torrenting commenced and went to work. Got...