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Blog: traffic spike? Enable Cache and CDN fast!

18 October 2014

So, you wrote an article that makes its way fast through social media, huh? That is great, but your server is getting tired and you receive an email from the hosting company that says your shared plan does not cover this type of thing and you need to upgrade. What they don’t tell you is […]

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Amazon CloudFront costs

12 February 2013

I’ve switched to CloudFront as a CDN provider for my main blog. The stats: 180.000 monthly unique visitors, 10-12.000 daily unique visitors, 93 Gb traffic for the regular hosting (html and blog images), 30 Gb from CloudFront (just the CSS and the theme images). Final costs: 13.86$.  

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About Kim Dotcom’s MEGA

20 January 2013

Kim Dotcom, the released from prison owner of MegaUpload, download site used for filesharing pirated content, launched today a new site, MEGA. To sum it up, the service goes like this: why would anyone risk hosting anything with him? The End.

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Domain Name Management for .ro domains

2 February 2012

All of my domains have the same NameServers: ns1.bule.org, ns2.bule.org… Bule.org is a domain name I registered in 2006, along bule.ro just because i liked how it sounds. I sold bule.ro to Orlando some time later, but kept the .org. And moving from one hosting to another (dreamhost, imountain, mediatemple, synco and others), i found […]

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Hosting business moves so fast

18 May 2011

Some years ago, it took me a couple of hours to download and upload the files from one hosting to another. Now, i move them ftp2ftp via shell access, i update the new IP in the dns zone and in 10 mins the site is moved.

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ZenPhoto sucks!

11 October 2009

In case anyone asks, zenphoto is a piece of sh*t script! It keeps giving me blank pages for no reason. Just like that. I did not do anything to it and it crashed. So I spent a few hours moving a lot of my pics to photobucket. I was paying for 25Gb of space and […]

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