I'm a licensed private investigator. When people learn this they ask for exciting tales of fast cars chasing cheating spouses. Yet, my most memorable story is simply about a man who passed away on his way to work which made me reflect on what it means to even be alive at all. I talk about it in this posting.
When 2x RAID 5 = RAID 10
An occasion I will never, ever forget is the time I set foot in a small business and the developers and IT Manager alike told me how their database server was in RAID 10. They spoke at length about the research they put in to determine the most performant disk configuration and came to the …
A new day, a new site
With Microsoft Office 365 bringing public-facing, unauthenticated, websites to an end I've been rethinking my web hosting. I've been running web servers since 1994, from hand-coded HTML through to a variety of content management systems, both self-managed and hosted. After thought, it seems the easiest today is to let WordPress do the work for me, …
