Posts in "Rants"

CloudFlare Review: Bad Logo, Amazing Service

September 22, 2011
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MediaTemple started pimping CloudFlare months ago, and I passed on it until today when I got an email announcing that it became a free service. I figured I’d give it a shot, and less than an hour later I’m impressed enough to write a post and share my early review with both my readers.

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The Importance of Quotas

November 18, 2010
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I just wasted about two hours of my life troubleshooting my development server when I mysteriously couldn’t SFTP files. Transmit and Flow both quit on me in weird, somewhat inconsistent ways. The problem: I had lazily allowed VirtualMin to set quotas, one in particular on the user account I was SFTPing with.

Careful with those quotas. And that’s the blog post you’ve been waiting ~3 months for.

Planning Your Website

August 8, 2009
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You’ve got a web project and you consider yourself somewhat tech-savvy, but you know you need to enlist some professional designers and programming nerds to get your site off the ground. For most clients, this is new territory and it’s hard to know exactly what to ask. Here are a few things you’ll want to consider…

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