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Raspberry Pi

by | Jun 25, 2012 | evilzenscientist, Linux, Uncategorized

Finally it arrived. Unboxed; find all of the bits needed (Micro USB power supply, USB keyboard, 2GB SD card); download the beta bits; boot and it worked.

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I’ve not done anything beyond this – just checking the darn thing worked.

Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate

by | Jun 2, 2012 | Evangelism, Linux, patching, Uncategorized

The process and change control for the build/rebuild is pretty straight-forward now.

Updated the main archive server from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate. Looks great – some nice features – and it seems to be faster than the previous version.

Also this blog is hosted as a SUSE Linux web server running on top of Hyper-V on top of Windows Server 2012 RC. Performance is solid. No issues to date.

.. the more things stay the same

by | May 29, 2012 | evilzenscientist, Linux, Uncategorized

Back to self hosting.

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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.

The more things change..

by | 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.