Well, I gave DreamHost PS a try. And let me tell you, it works great.
So why is this blog back on my DreamHost shared account? A few reasons; mostly, there’s no payoff between the cost and the performance difference, at least for this blog.
I got in on DreamHost PS as part of a promotion that [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Musings category.
Meet The New Host, Same As The Old Host
Most Code Downloads Restored; Some Articles Deleted
I’ve restored about two-thirds of the code downloads on the site, especially for the most popular articles on this site. I’ve also had to delete some articles that were either based on images I can no longer locate or were, to be blunt, badly written.
Bear with me; I should have the last of the code [...]
Downloadable Code, Images Gone
Hey all — a casualty of the move to the new server is that all downloadable code and images that were on this blog are now gone. As in, the new server ate them.
I’ll work on getting replacements up where appropriate, working from the most recent posts backwards. Expect this process to take a while.
Blog Downtime: New Server
Sorry about the blog being down for the last 24 hours. I moved it to a new Dreamhost virtual private server account late Monday, figuring the automated process would go well. And, of course, I made sure I was on the road all day Tuesday so that I wouldn’t notice things went wrong until well [...]
A Beginning Entrepreneur’s Guide To Pricing Professional Services
I have long promised to blog on how best for a self-employed person to price his services.
Until now, I have basically said that you should charge as much as you feel is appropriate, given the amount of work you need to invest and the ability of your customer to pay. That, I know, comes [...]
FTP Error 425 “Can’t open data connection”: Time To Reset Your Router And Modem
So you’re running a copy of FileZilla server on your Windows IIS Web server, you try to connect via your copy of FileZilla client, and you receive the most dreaded of all FTP error messages:
425 Can’t open data connection. **
You try searching for “FileZilla server 425” and are sent to a Wiki page about network [...]
