Has anyone bothered to compare the performance from their Shared Hosting to the 10x better performance availablle on a $5vps? Fuck Shared Hosting. Fuck GoDaddy more than anyone else. And Fuck Apache WebServer. Apache has lost two thirds of its market share these last 10 years. I mean, […]
Category: Experience
Don’t Waste Your Time!
When you UNDER INVEST in cheap hosting, you are wasting your own time and money. When you work on a lot of projects over the years, you learn that it’s important to do the most critical things FIRST. When you choose the right HOST, that effects the development […]
Number 1 Rule
I hope that I don’t come across as being arrogant. There is nothing further from the truth. i just know that I’ve got 25 years working as a professional developer, and there are some things that I can forecast better than other people. I’ve been working the Newsgroups, […]
GoDaddy Emails Their Employees And Offers $600 Christmas Bonus
I cannot believe how much I hate GoDaddy. This articles says that they are actually emailing their EMPLOYEES and offering them a $600 check…. when in fact, it is just a TEST to see how gullible they are. I mean, what type of company would JOKE about giving […]
My First Big Project
The first project that I worked on, that I considered a ‘Million Dollar Project’ was my first full time database role, working for Briazz in 2000-2001. We had biweekly meetings with a team of about a dozen people for a year, and we were integrating data from about […]
Project Management
Being able to write software and to do it in a reliable and predictable manner is a lot more difficult than it should be. But when I occasionally peek into the art of being a Project Manager, it makes me sick sometimes to hear about the gory details. […]
Web Hosting Lessons Learned
There are many things that I have fallen in love with over the last nearly twenty years of managing web servers. Whether I was working for a Medium sized ISP doing IIS migrations or working as a Lamp developer for a startup, there were a lot of things […]
My Web Hosting Experience
Over the years, I have done a lot of Systems Administration and Management of Web Servers. Here are some of those stories: [2000 – 2006] IIS for development and production of Classic Asp apps [2002] IIS migrations for Internet Service Provider in Oregon [2003 – 2010] Bare Apache […]
My Favorite Hosting Platforms Over The Years
Over the years I have looked at a lot of different control panel software. Here are some of the tools that I have put a decent amount of time into using (for either Dev or Production) HestiaCP. This software is a fork of VestaCP, and VestaCP was quite […]
What Is Important in a Web Hosting Control Panel?
We love HestiaCP, and for many years before that, we loved VestaCP. The performance is incredible, and the flexibility to properly configure a webserver, I just can’t handle dealing with the limitations, going through a company like GoDaddy. What do I think are the most important things to […]