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Tag Archives: Cloud Computing

MySQL caching

I guess the caching is work­ing lololol:

Simple Trac and Subversion hosting

DreamHost now offers one-click Trac and Sub­ver­sion host­ing. Trac is a web-based revi­sion and bug track­ing sys­tem allow­ing you to roll back and share your source code in a team and as an indi­vid­ual, track bugs and devel­op­ment goals, and much more. You can read why you should always use a source con­trol sys­tem like Trac/Subversion […]

VirtualMin

I installed a new Vir­tual Pri­vate Server, and tried out Vir­tualmin, the lat­est incar­na­tion of the Usermin/Webmin fam­ily. I’ve found it to be very sta­ble, and great for Linux admin­is­tra­tors that are used to con­fig­ur­ing servers via con­fig­u­ra­tion files and com­mand line, but wish to save time. It remains as flex­i­ble as man­ual con­fig­u­ra­tion, but […]

Virtual Server Response Times

I used Ping­dom to test the response time of an Ama­zon EC2 (Elas­tic Com­pute Cloud) instance and a Dyn­DNS Spring Server. Both are vir­tual server offer­ings. DynDNS’s Spring Server was mar­gin­ally faster in terms of ping response time. After using both for the past few months, I have found that the Dyn­DNS Spring Server is […]

Happy New Year

Happy 2009 every­one! I plan to keep this weblog updated more fre­quently this year, men­tion­ing any­thing inter­est­ing I’m doing, espe­cially with tech­nol­ogy and pho­tog­ra­phy. I switched from using the Panosaurus panora­maic tri­pod head to a Nodal Ninja 3, and am hav­ing good results. I’m sure the Panosaurus is per­fectly ade­quate, but I couldn’t for the […]