Category Archives: Hosting

Rails 3.1 on Heroku and adding the Amazon CDN

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Bill Leeper

I have been spending the last week tuning up an application we support at work. It really is a massive piling of steaming dung in places too. Anyway after getting through a whole bunch of other performance issues, I turned … Continue reading →

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Carbonite Throttling

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Bill Leeper

I recently noticed that my Carbonite backups were going vey slow. Digging around their site I found that they do indeed throttle personal accounts once you have more than 200GB of information stored. While many will find this plenty, if … Continue reading →

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Rackspace hosting experience

Posted on December 16, 2009 by Bill Leeper

I have been setting up our corporate website, DreamLocal.com, using WordPress and hosted as part of a cloud computing package we have on Rackspace.  The cloud sites package has been working pretty good so far.  We have a total of … Continue reading →

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