One of the reasons that I have contemplated often the jump to a VPS for my web hosting was the freedom to do what I wanted. That was always balanced by a bit of fear that I might f*ck up my VPS linux installation. I had played with linux often, in the past, but never seriously. It ran a firewall on my home network back when I had an ISDN line, and I had built some inside the firewall file servers...
Earlier this week, I learnt that my hosting provider, (MT) has been sold to GoDaddy. While they assured their customers that they would be independent, and that GoDaddy was trying to change their reputation, I know that it was just a matter of time before the douchebaggery of GoDaddy infected the ethos of MediaTemple. I had used a shared hosting account that worked remarkably well. I have 9...
The joy of working in a large enterprise. We have been working with a web development partner for some new sites and moving some older sites to their hosting. Part of this means that we have been exchanging details on the web sites we are migratin...
If you have been following the saga, I have been working on a new, groovy and cool web community for my products. Something pretty simple to start to build a community of practice. I have complained in the past about the contractor we are using, w...