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What is Adobe thinking not supporting new computers?

October 26, 2008

I just bought my new computer, an HP m9350f, a month ago and installed Firefox and Opera as part of my first day setup. I have a Netflix subscription that I use primarily to watch streaming movies, usually on my computer in the living room, not the one in my bedroom. Netflix only streams with [...]

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54 million visits per day on a VPS?

October 27, 2007

More stress testing the VPS with scripts since nobody’s volunteered a real site. Just running a couple scripts continually downloading the tracker image from the VPS, it seems to be handling 2000-3000 queries per second on the database while extremely responsive.
Either something’s wrong or I underestimated just how little resources you need when you have [...]

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They want to buy — I better start selling

October 20, 2007

I’ve had a number of people come to me looking for a W3Counter plan that can handle more than the “Pro” plan. More websites, more pageviews, or sometimes both. If people are knocking on the door asking to buy, I need to figure out a way to sell what they want. I decided against [...]

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If You Can See This…

March 17, 2007

It means the DNS change for this domain has propogated to your ISP. The move of all my sites from two servers at NAC and one at LayeredTech to two brand-new servers at SoftLayer is under way. As is the process of putting all 40+ websites under version control at a third location. Read on [...]

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LayeredTech Loses a Customer

March 13, 2007

I rent one of my servers from LayeredTech. I initially chose them when W3Counter outgrew its last server as they were the only company I couldn’t find many negative reviews of that sold Opteron servers at a price I could afford for a site that, at the time, wasn’t charging anything. But they lost me [...]