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Time to bite the bullet

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I currently have 3 vpses. One on Mediatemple and two at linode. Thing is I need at least 3 servers at linode to properly setup the environment for my scaling experiment / future gs setup…. So as of tonight I’m […]


Linode Rocks!

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
I haven’t had much time to post, or do anything fun in the past few months, but I’m currently working on a nginx, php, apache, varnish, memcachedb, mysql setup distributed between two servers. Why does this matter? Because I decided to upgrade my linode so I could slice up my resources into a nice little […]


Hosting: where to go, where to go

Monday, August 18th, 2008
So after about 2 months on slicehost, I have yet to finish setting up my server. It seems to be the busy season and I’ve only been able to finish my local servers. So to recap I know have a media temple box and a slicehost box. Now to further complicate the situation after much debate […]


Slicehost

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
I’m been an MediaTemple fan boy for awhile, but I’ve been looking for a new host for the past few months. Today I may have found them: slicehost. Their vps servers are called slices, and that what you get. Each slice is a base install of your os of choice - nothing else. You setup the […]


Install yum and subversion on media temple dv 3.5

Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Just upgraded one of my clients servers to dv 3.5. dv 3.5 uses centos 5 so when you install yum you’ll need to use that version  rpm -Uvh mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/yum-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.5.noarch.rpm Subversion is now included in the developer tools package. Login to your account center and install developer tools from there. via hello, hellm 


deploying rails made simple : Deploying Rails From Scratch

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
I spent a good bit of this summer working on websites for ApacheCon US 2007 and OS Summit Asia 2007 which will be in Atlanta and Hong Kong this fall. (You should attend!) There’s a whole long sad story behind the Apache conference websites, but I’ll spare you that (for now). Instead, I wanted to […]


media temple nitro

Thursday, March 13th, 2008
I finally got my hands on a nitro, old news, but super sweet, had to let the world know


How to: Install electroserver on media-temple dv and similar centos setups

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Before you start Before starting anything you should be sure that you have the developer tools package installed. If your not sure, then you don’t. No worries: submit a request to install the developer tools package and you’ll be ready in about 45min to a hour. Get started first login as root next download electroserver: wget www.electro-server.com/downloads/builds/ElectroServer_4_0_4_linux.rpm next install the rpm: […]


from the trench: streaming a live event

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
I decided to document my last event. don’t know what this falls under, but hopefully it helps others. so lets get started the event I was contacted by the client to do a live webcast for a horse show. I would setup everything needed prior to the event, and also come to the event location for a day […]


where do they run when the media temples gone

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Apparently more than a few people are running to a small orange from media temples grid hosting. I’m checking them out now, might get a server to play with. will post if i do.A Small Orange - Virtual Private Servers - Plans Powered by ScribeFire.