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June '11

How I Survived My Last Few Fireballings

It’s a running joke in the community that you shouldn’t be running WordPress if you plan on surviving a sudden spike in traffic to your site. Heck, I’ve even been the butt of that joke before. (Pretend that I linked a tweet from @gruber here, where he disses my server after it’s been fireballed. Stupid [...]


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July '07

Mind the dust!

I’m currently in the middle of testing out a new hosting strategy in an attempt to handle the greater load placed on my home’s DSL connection. This work should result in a much quicker and even more reliable site than before. For the first time in 5 years I flipped the ‘big switch’ on the [...]


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February '07

Some notes about the PowerEdge 1900

When I was researching this purchase, I found the amount of information on the Internet very lacking (i.e. only coming from Dell). I had a bit of a scare with some of the hardware I bought for the system, but in the end it all turned out well. Here are some things you may not [...]