Can the HomePod be Housetrained?
The announcement of the Apple HomePod immediately interested me, as I find myself serving as both the “office audio guru” and “generally interested in home automation” guy. While watching the […]
Continue ReadingThe Story of Bright Pot
Who among us hasn’t killed a houseplant or two? Or maybe 10? With the memory of a recently deceased office fern fresh in our minds, the DevNow FedEx team conceived […]
Continue ReadingWhy Does Pokémon Go Eat My Phone’s Battery?
Simple answer: it’s the GPS. The cool augmented reality stuff isn’t easy either, but shut that off—even flip your phone upside down for power-save mode—and GPS is still going to […]
Continue ReadingDedicated Servers
The A-lister for dedicated servers is Rackspace, a managed hosting provider I’m always happy to recommend. Great support & service. The one “downside” is that their price reflects their quality. […]
Continue ReadingVPS Hosting
VPS Hunt I’ve been looking into VPS hosting a bit more and found a few well-recommended providers: ServInt LiquidWeb Zone.net PowerVPS Hostmaven MediaTemple’s Grid-Service and Dedicated Virtual services. RimuHosting ServInt especially […]
Continue ReadingAre Virtual Servers Right for Your Applications?
A question came up recently on a mailing list I’m on about virtual machines for production applications. I’ve used virtual servers for web & database apps before, but only for dev/qa […]
Continue ReadingWhen will my hard drive fail?
…or, why should I get RAID? Like I said before, if you’re getting a dedicated server for web hosting, you should get RAID. Just get it. But if you really […]
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