Over the weekend I moved this blog from being hosted on my Dreamhost account to one of my 256mb Slicehost servers.
I’ve done this mainly to stop paying for hosting twice, but also because if I’m going to be talking about performance I can’t possibly have a slow blog and my options were limited with the [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2008
Wordpress with Nginx on Slicehost
I don’t use Foreign Key Constraints with Rails
A couple of months back we had Nigel talking at WellRailed about a Foreign Key Constraint plugin he uses with Rails and then just this week the topic was brought up again for me with a client. I’ve found it’s something that pops up every now and again. Given this is such a polarizing issue [...]
Setting up a resumable remote login to ubuntu with vnc
I’ve changed my home server from Centos 5.1 (32bit) to Ubuntu Desktop 8.04 (64bit) due to the CentOS drive crashing - it was real old. As my server doesn’t actually have a screen when it’s carefully hidden away I initially enabled Remote Desktop for GUI access. This worked ok, although slightly sluggish, in [...]
