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Comment on My experience with Rackspace Cloud Sites by Jereme

Jereme — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:29:28 +0000

I have been working on a backup script for Cloud Sites. You can check it out at http://zipitbackup.com

Hope that it helps.

Jereme

Comment on How often do my Rackspace Cloud servers have issues? by DrDzoe

DrDzoe — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:49:47 +0000

Oops – make that the occasional outage WAS something we could live with.

Comment on How often do my Rackspace Cloud servers have issues? by DrDzoe

DrDzoe — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:41:22 +0000

At Mixx, we used the Rackspace cloud. We often had outages with the servers – the numbers you report seem in line with what we saw.

In our case, we only ran front-end servers on the Cloud hosts. We used managed hosting for our database and file servers. Thus, the occasional outage of a cloud server was not something we could live with. But you’re right – if the cloud hosts were our only hosts, the up-times would not have been acceptable.

Comment on Converting Ceiling Fan light from Intermediate(E17) to Medium base so you can use CFLs by Sue

Sue — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 03:18:05 +0000

Thanks for the info on the government regs. I have looked all over for a ceiling fan with standards bulbs and can’t find any. No wonder!! Will have to try your retrofit since I want to use standard bulbs. Thanks

Comment on Is Ubuntu Server winning over CentOS folks? by Tony Primerano

Tony Primerano — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:02:15 +0000

Inertia has kept me on CentOS for my existing projects and at my new job they use RedHat like most established companies.

Fortunately they seem to have fixed the PCI scanner as it hasn’t been failing me recently. Maybe, CentOS updated the OpenSSH string.

I’ve had folks at my new job ask me if we should look into Chef for our deployments. My answer has been no because we are on RedHat.

Comment on Converting Ceiling Fan light from Intermediate(E17) to Medium base so you can use CFLs by Matt

Matt — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:21:06 +0000

Going to give this a shot. I have been to every hardware and lighting store in the area and no one could provide as much information as you have.

Thanks.

Comment on Is Ubuntu Server winning over CentOS folks? by Georgi

Georgi — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:57:20 +0000

Hi CentOS has a good reason to keep down the version for sure. You’re totally right that with CentOS, there are some issues with installing a lot of latest software or even compiling one. Anyways Ubuntu as a server doesn’t sound like a good idea. Having the latest software like in Ubuntu server has a major security drawback, as I believe “time” didn’t confirmed the software is reliable enough. A good compromise if you’re determined to migrate from CentOS to another Linux distribution is Debian stable. Debian stable has most of benefits of Ubuntu and is still comes with a program versions not just released.

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Comment on Is Ubuntu Server winning over CentOS folks? by Rob

Rob — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 02:20:48 +0000

That was very helpful. Thanks.

Now that about 6 months have passed, I’d love to know what you are currently using for your deployments. Did you switch to ubuntu or did you find a reason to go back to CentOS?

Comment on Why are there so many Craigslist Flakeouts? by Sher

Sher — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:21:30 +0000

Hello, I am wondering the same thing. I get a group of people emailing me about an item I have listed on Craigslist that act interested but then give the same excuse- odd- “my nephew crashed my minivan so I cannot buy this now”. I don’t get it