As I have mentioned several times I now only use dreamhost for parking. and Keeping some of my older sites and databases as they are irrelevant. Dreamhost has been down for several hours. I mean the entire Dreamhost http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2013/05/13/networking-issues-affecting-us-west-data-center-los-angeles-ca The US-WEST as they call it now actually hosts majority of the users. From what [...]
Let me quickly review what I found so far about DreamObjects. First the good stuff Using Apache Benchmark (yeah, screw you naysayers, it is what I have installed on my Fedora box) compared Amazon US-West and DreamObjects HTTP GET of a jquery file (90.5KB). I used AWS West (North California) region because dreamhost [...]
I happened to login to Dreamhost Control panel today to setup email forwarding. I have mentioned before that the Dreamhost hosting I have is so pathetic that now its even impossible to host simple non DB websites. Forget the DB websites all together. It is slow as frack. It’s completely and utterly useless and has [...]
Recently I posted about Linode’s Network and Hardware improvement project at no additional cost to customers. Linode has further announced not more than a week ago that they will double the Memory allocated per plan. For example I started out on a Linode 768 about 2 years ago and upgraded to 1GB plan for 40$/month [...]
I have posted earlier about Linode and it’s lack of performance on my node as time went by. However in the recent few weeks it has been back to top performance and I did not change anything. In fact I added two more sites to it. Linode has made a whole bunch of improvements recently: Improved [...]
For the past few years websites have really grown and outgrown. If expired domains is any indication there are more websites born than babies on this planet everyday. Or perhaps more websites dying than people on this planet. Ok I made those stats up but hey 79% of all stats a re made up right? [...]
I just received email from one of my server providers in Europe “Hetzner” who I have used for over 2 years. I have a rather old server I got with a total of 8 IPs (included) in the monthly price as well as paid a hefty setup fee. In the over almost 3 years I have never [...]
In response to a Homeland security alert released today I wanted to quickly post on how to disable java or remove it if you are super cautious. Because homeland security alert news did not do two important things 1. tell you how to protect yourself. 2. what is the actual issue: who dafuq are the so [...]
I have had this site hosted on Redhat Openshift for almost an year. Considering I got this hosting free (and you can too) I was a bit apprehensive of whether I should move the site elsewhere. I let it be here anyway. It was surprising that not only do I get awesome performance but the [...]
Despite most my work involving PHP setup I have found python to be the most useful tool for a whole bunch of supporting tasks. One of them is to run commands or deploy packages to Amazon EC2 instances. For really large setup this is a very cool way to get the job done. Imagine that [...]