PHP settings
Every time I move blog server I need to tweak PHP settings.
For my own sanity – here are the main ones:
memory_limit = 512MB
max_execution_time = 300
post_max_size = 32M
upload_max_filesize = 512M
Back to 5K
Starting back up the training for a 5K later in the Spring.
Foggy and cold this last few days.
Slow – but every day is an improvement.
Novell layoffs
Sad to see Novell do another, seemingly fatal, round of layoffs.
The few good people left seem to be gone; those that are left pretty much bare bones product maintenance. Looks like the entire legacy Attachmate product line and the legacy Novell product lines have been merged under a single management structure.
From what I hear it’s “do less, with less” – which is a sad whimper to end with.
Best wishes to those that got let go; it’s a different world outside. Almost six years since I walked away.
To the cloud!
The never ending saga of running infrastructure has gone full circle. All of my self-hosted blogs and websites have moved from a Hyper-V server in my garage and up to Microsoft Windows Azure.
I spent a decade (2001-2011) self-hosting. Running both email and website on platforms as diverse as NetWare through RedHat, SUSE and finally Windows Server. In early 2011 I decided to get out of the hosting game and move the blogs to GoDaddy and the mail to Exchange Online (then BPOS, now Office 365).
GoDaddy really frustrated me. Poor performance, poor logging, strange “go slows” and unexpected disconnects of SSH. Understandably “I got what I paid for” – but frustrating none the less.
It has taken eighteen months – but slowly the various blogs and websites have been culled and archived, moved back to self-host and now up to Azure.
Windows Azure has really improved over the past two years – I started by evaluating the Platform as a Service capabilities back in November 2011. Functional – but missing some capabilities that I needed to run the photo blogs (all written for the LAMP stack).
More recently as the Infrastructure as a Service capabilities have moved from preview to production I tested this blog running on Azure. Performance and uptime have been great. The blog is running a SLES 11 SP3 platform on Azure – and it’s as functional as running on bare metal or any hypervisor.
I finally took the time to move the family blogs and business website to the platform over the last week or so. The migration of WordPress blogs and Gallery photo sites is pretty simple now.
.. another office move
Over the course of 5½ years I have had four different and evolving roles – and numerous offices. Today I moved back down to the ground floor of Building 121 on the Redmond campus; my fourth office in this build – and the tenth office overall.
New role – more blogging
I recently changed role at Microsoft – and blogging about technology and the application of that technology is going to become a lot easier.
My new position is as the Chief Technology Officer – or Chief Technology Architect – for the World Wide Microsoft Technology Centers.
I will be working with a first class global team of technology architects and leads to really define the portfolio view of the entire conversation and offering in the MTC. The MTC is the pinnacle of the Microsoft technical sales organisation – hosting some incredible customers on a daily basis around the globe.
An incredible asset for Microsoft and our customers – and I am feeling both challenged and excited for the new opportunity.
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