by Dennis Clayton | Jan 7, 2018 | Apple, Asinine, Bad Things, Cell Phones, Cloud Computing, Gadgets, General, GMail, Google, GSuite, iCloud, iPad, iPad, iPhone, Nexus, Technical, Technology
To start, I’ve always been an Apple fan – more than that really, an Apple evangelist, when it comes to technology, unified hardware/software platform, design aesthetics, mobile app security and so on. Back in 2007, I bought the original iPhone 1 even though...
by Dennis Clayton | Aug 10, 2016 | Cloud Computing, Cool Stuff, Linode, Linux, Review, Software, Technical, Ubuntu, Virtualization, Web, Wordpress
Earlier this year, I decided to make the leap to PHP 7 prior to it officially becoming a part of my servers distribution (I run Ubuntu). It has probably been the easiest and best change I have made to my personal server stack in a number of years. Granted, it...
by Dennis Clayton | Apr 23, 2014 | Cloud Computing, Cool Stuff, Good Things, Linode, Linux, Review, Technical, Technology, Ubuntu, Updates, Virtualization
I know I talk about Linode a lot on my site here, but they are my faithful VPS hosting provider, so I want to support them as much as possible. Recently, Linode made the jump to SSD drives for VPS and at the same time, doubled the RAM for them. SSD drives are not new...
by Dennis Clayton | Apr 25, 2013 | Cloud Computing, Cool Stuff, General, Good Things, Linux, Review, Software, Technical, Technology, Ubuntu, Virtualization, Web, Wordpress
Linode has invested over a million dollars into upgrading their network, servers and bandwidth to levels that are unparalleled when it comes to all the features they have already made available to subscribers. There are three parts to the “Nextgen” upgrade...
by Dennis Clayton | Jun 29, 2011 | Cloud Computing, General, Linux, Microsoft, Review, Software, Technical, Technology, Ubuntu, Virtualization, Web
When I started hosting websites for clients, I hosted them in-house, literally, in my house. This was nice because I had direct control over the servers and could quickly fix them or migrate data if there were hardware failures. But obviously, it does not scale very...
by Dennis Clayton | May 4, 2011 | Apple, Cloud Computing, Email, General, Good Things, iPad, iPhone, Software, Technical, Technology, Web
Dear Steve Jobs, I feel that with the “death” of the XServe Server and the uncertain future of Mac OS X Server OS, Apple should delve into offering hosted services to pull in entities who are now scattered among numerous other services such as Google Apps...
