Part of having your servers hosted in the cloud means you can’t control the scheduled downtime when your hosting provider needs to do some maintenance. Fortunately for me my hosting provider VMVault has had very reliable systems and anytime there’s been a failure in one of their systems, I normally find out about it when they are telling me that it’s fixed, not when … [Read more...]
How can I subscribe to this blog?
I was asked yesterday by a regular reader how they can subscribe to this blog. I realised then that I don’t have a funky RSS icon or anything like that on my site. Ok – so I’ll fix that in the new year along with a few other thing, but for now – you can subscribe to this blog a few ways. RSS – This will give you a live feed and you can subscribe to it … [Read more...]
SBSfaq.com moves to the cloud
As part of bigger plans I have for 2010, I’ve just completed the migration of this and other sites I manage over to a new hosted virtualised solution. I’m also now running it all on Windows Server 2008 R2 which so far seems to be slicker than the older Server 2008 R1 version. If you happen to see any issues with the new environment, please let me know so I can work … [Read more...]
Site Down – WordPress Crashed…
I woke up this morning to find that my site was down. Every webmasters nightmare. I logged on remotely to the site and found that the virtualised servers I run it on had crashed for some reason overnight this taking out out of action. When I broswed the site locally on the server I was able to get additional information about the crash error and it told me that some … [Read more...]
WordPress for Dummies
Reviewed by Ben Love from Grassroots IT I should know better. I know I should. Or more accurately, I should at least pretend that I know that I should know better. Or something like that. I’m an IT Pro with a dirty little secret. Wanna hear? I’m a sucker for a Dummies Guide. There. I’ve said it. Please don’t judge me. I know I should like mucking around in spec guides, deep … [Read more...]