Patrick Havens on August 15th, 2006

I love Dreamhost… the support has been good, and I can’t complain about the cost.  But I still do have one domain hosted by 1 and 1 Internet and so I get their newsletters.
Introducing the 1&1 Blog!
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Patrick Havens on July 28th, 2006

Brief Explanation for today’s power outage
This note came from our building just now:
The Garland Building experienced a dead short which resulted in a brief power outage today, July 28, 2006. The air conditioning, elevators, and the electrical utility have all been restored.
While on generator power, a dead short occurred from one of our internal telecom [...]

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Patrick Havens on April 11th, 2006

Digg PHP’s Scalability and Performance
by Brian Fioca
Several weeks ago there was a notable bit of controversy over some comments made by James Gosling, father of the Java programming language. He has since addressed the flame war that erupted, but the whole ordeal got me thinking seriously about PHP and its scalability and performance abilities compared [...]

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Patrick Havens on April 7th, 2006

One of the hosts for the larger files you see on this site is Dreamhost. This provider has proven to be extremely reliable and I can’t imagine coming close to my limits. The base account has a Gig of space and a Tetrabyte of transfer. And it keeps increasing Weekly! All [...]

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Patrick Havens on February 6th, 2006

I picked up a couple domains and I’m debating what to do with them. One I picked up because it was free… and then I got hosting because it was cheap (and I figured in case I needed backup). Then I got a second domain which I got because I was fooling around… and [...]

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Patrick Havens on February 1st, 2006

Easy? yes.
Digg had linked a guy who had written a tutorial on how to do it with Ubutu (The magic linux distro everyone is talking about). But there was positives and negatives.
Positive:

Affordable
Relatively simple with Windows and Linux (even can be secure)
OK for small time use.

Negatives:

ONLY ok for small time use
You should know what you’re doing [...]

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