Dented Reality on New Dedicated Virtual at Media Temple

https://beau.blog/2017/05/dented-reality-on-new-dedicated-virtual-at-media-temple/

I’ve completed the migration of beaulebens.com (along with all my other domains, excluding this one) to a new dedicated virtual server with Media Temple. Mad props to them, they’ve been great in helping me handle some pieces of the process, which has gone relatively smoothly. Things I’m looking forward to on the new host include:

Working with Plesk Onyx
Trying out Let’s Encrypt 🔐
PHP 7 😍
Hopefully consolidating and simplifying some things

This site (beau.blog) is now my main blogging/writing space, with Dented Reality being more of a full archive of my digital footsteps.

Lychee

http://lychee.electerious.com/?utm_source=hackernewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_category=show_hn

Lychee

Lychee is a free photo-management tool, which runs on your server or web-space.

TinyLoad.com :: Huge Files, Tiny Name

http://tinyload.com/

TinyLoad.com :: Huge Files, Tiny Name

Simple service that uploads your file to any other “big file” upload system (or lots of them).

WordPress Performance: Why My Site Is So Much Faster Than Yours by Elliott C. Back

http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2007/04/15/why-my-wordpress-site-is-so-much-faster-than-yours/

WordPress Performance: Why My Site Is So Much Faster Than Yours by Elliott C. Back

Pretty good run-down on performance improvements to be made to WordPress sites/servers.

scaling drupal – an open-source infrastructure for high-traffic drupal sites | johnandcailin

http://www.johnandcailin.com/blog/john/scaling-drupal-open-source-infrastructure-high-traffic-drupal-sites

scaling drupal – an open-source infrastructure for high-traffic drupal sites | johnandcailin

Great notes on some common scaling arrangements for web apps (focussed on Drupal, but applicable to other architectures).

OpenFount – Distributed, local filesystem

http://www.openfount.com/

OpenFount – Distributed, local filesystem

Interesting tools based on Amazon Web Services. Especially the distributed, multi-access local filesystem using FUSE, backed into S3.

RightScale

http://info.aws-console.com/

RightScale

Amazon Web Services has created an exciting platform for deploying web applications based on Elastic Compute Cloud and Simple Storage Service. If you are considering using EC2 and S3, AWS-Console will make your life easy.