by ezs | May 29, 2012 | evilzenscientist, Linux, Uncategorized
Back to self hosting.
The blog has moved from home, to hosting at GoDaddy and up to Azure.
All had advantages – all had downsides. It’s the private cloud/public cloud conversation in a nutshell.
Ultimately GoDaddy performance let it down – especially for the database – was unacceptable. Their support was also pretty poor. As always “you get what you pay for” – but the bottlenecks for even simple, near static, WordPress sites were unacceptable.
Azure has a lot going for it – I am still keeping my eye on future features that are currently in beta. Performance was incredible; the process of getting apps updated was a little too cumbersome for me.
Self hosting really requires me to get dirty with the infrastructure and tuning – but the fact that I can lets me drive the performance. I’m also responsible for everything below the app – hardware, storage, network, connectivity, OS, security etc etc.
by ezs | May 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
I just noted that Fedora 17 has just been released. That took me right back to when Red Hat Linux spewed out RHEL and Fedora Core about nine years ago.
I clearly remember the debates within the Ximian team about which distros to support in Red Carpet Enterprise 2.x and moving forward into the ZENworks Linux Management platforms.
by ezs | Nov 14, 2011 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
I have started looking at WordPress running on Azure – Microsoft’s public cloud app fabric. One area I am really interested in investigating is the performance and scalability of a PHP app – with particular reference to Gallery integration.
Notes and comments in the coming months.
by ezs | Sep 30, 2011 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
Another step in cutting the cord – but this is a strange one.
We’ve been Netflix customers for over nine years – I signed up before we moved to Utah.
Last month I removed the streaming option and reverted back to just physical DVDs; today I cancelled the whole service.
At the end of the day – there’s just not a lot of stuff at Netflix that we want to watch any more.
by ezs | Sep 22, 2011 | blogging, Evangelism, evilzenscientist, Technology, Uncategorized
Firstly – it’s been too long without posting here. Lots of reasons, lots of excuses – mainly workload and not having anything public to blog about.
Secondly – I’ve changes roles inside Microsoft – moving from Business Development (where nothing is public or bloggable) and into customer facing enterprise strategy.
The role is a great fit – and it takes me back to what I love – working and interacting directly with customers.
I’ll write more about the role and the experience in the next few days.
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