Tag: Web Hosting
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Coming to you from the cloud
It’s not the least bit obvious to you but this blog is now coming to you from the cloud. My move to cloud computing is but my latest adventure in hosting. This blog has moved around so many times in its nearly fourteen years even I don’t remember all the places it’s been hosted at.…
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Great web hosting at last
Since I put my first domain on the web around 2000 I have been in a quixotic-like search for a good web host. In case you are unfamiliar with the term, a web host serves web content, like the content on this site. To say the least, I have been frequently dissatisfied, in part because…
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Growing Pains
It may not seem like it, but this blog is growing. My web host is still complaining, like it did last December, that I am using too many resources. It doesn’t appear that I can run this blog on a $16.95 a month virtual private server any longer. While my visits and page counts are…
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Confessions of a CPU and memory hog
I have heard of diners who eat so much at all-you-can-eat restaurants that the management throws them out. All you can eat apparently means as much as the restaurant thinks you should eat. Eat too much and they are losing money. Therefore, certain patrons find their butts unexpectedly on the cement sidewalk in front of…
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Adventures in Virtual Private Servers
About two years ago, I went through a rather arduous adventure in rehosting. I regret to report that after about two years of hosting with site5.com, I have to rehost again. The rehosting game goes something like this. Things always start out very promising. Your web pages scream back at you. Then, slowly, response time…
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Adventures in Rehosting
This blog is one of a number of web sites that I manage. Except for the one I actually get paid to manage (and it’s my staff that does the real work) the rest are for my amusement only. The other two sites that I manage are the Oak Hill Virginia Online site and The…
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