DevOps
What is Cloud Computing?
Cloud computing has been a buzzword for the past couple years, but what does that really mean, and why should you care?
Stuck on the Launchpad
August 2009
Jedi mind tricks for getting your web site done
We see it all the time. Our clients hire us to get a web site put together. We build it, provide tools, training, and everything, and then it sits there on our development server, waiting for them to finish writing up those new pages they wanted to add. Weeks go by. Then months. And in a couple cases, years.
Ask Freelock: Shared hosting, managed hosting, dedicated hosting, what's the difference?
Ksenia asks, how difficult is it to move all our stuff from Media Temple to SliceHost? I want to be able to make changes on site any time myself.
TLLTS vs. TWIT: Linux support slam-a-thon
The Linux Link Tech Show (TLLTS) has a great segment dissecting the criticisms/wild flames put forth on a series of shows on the TWIT network. Wanted to add a couple comments missing from their discussion.
How Open Source support is different
I started writing a response to a discussion in the latest "Linux Link Tech Show" episode, but ended up with something far too long, so I've split it up into 4 posts.
An example of open source support
In my early Linux system administration days, when I was first trying to set up a mail server with spam filtering, I ran across a really puzzling bug in Dspam, the software I was trying to get working.
What's git, and why do you use it?
At Freelock, we're always trying to figure out ways to do things better.