I’m not doing much web server architecture anymore but I still try to stay up-to-date with some of the new environments, best practices, and setups that people are creating. Mongrel2 captured my attention because of of its ideal to be an application, language, and network architecture agnostic web server. It’s goal? To be used specifically [...]

Web filtering is common in business and is becoming more common in churches and ministry. Where I work, surfing social networking sites, streaming music and other activities started getting out of hand. In addition, many of these sites are often infected with malware and spyware and became a drain on IT resources. Give somebody an [...]

Managing and leveraging your analytics system for your webpages and website is vitally important. We’ve talked about that a number of times on some of our other blogs (ChurchCrunch mostly) and most people wouldn’t argue with that. But finding the right system and software to use can be tricky, not to mention using (and understanding) [...]

I was working on a client’s site last weekend and needed to do a backup of all their old content [images, media, rich text] but was unable to find an export feature on their CMS. In fact, there was really no way of even getting in to the system via FTP either. So, I needed [...]

Temperature monitoring and alerting on a small budget – sounds good, right? In our small office, we have four servers, switches, a telephone system, and several UPS units in a small wiring closet.  I need to make sure that I know if the closet starts to overheat, but most environmental monitoring systems are targeting the [...]

One of the things that Microsoft has done consistently is cater to Windows developers. For years now, they’ve provided resources, tools, and other material to make it easy to get started in building applications for their operating system. They even provide express editions of their enterprise level development tools for hobby programmers. Unfortunately, development on [...]

O.M.G. Hilarious…! ‘Fes up… you laughed.

Back in the 90′s, we used to pay for our Internet service by the minute. No unlimited access (unless you had, you know, unlimited funds). Then, towards the end of the decade, that all changed with a flat free for unlimited access. Win! Right? It’s funny – web hosting has somewhat of the same history. [...]

I can distinctly remember when I worked in the bowels of hell (literally) in a collocation facility that after a long and dark night of working by myself with only the sounds of rotating hard drive disks to comfort me, the sound of a human being’s voice when I left was almost startling. I’m glad [...]

Remember Limewire? Remember Kazaa? Remember Napster? All of those once-great applications are barely remembered now as Peer-to-Peer software has been shutdown through federal courts in light of copyright infringement. Yesterday Limewire got another hit by courts finding the owners personally liable. But it’s boring news since it’s been happening for years and it’s all so [...]