I’m really excited to share that I’ll be speaking at php[tek] 2013 in Chicago, this May. I’ll be doing a formal session discussing the ups and downs of building your business on public cloud networks like Amazon and Rackspace, versus building private clouds. This is the first time I’m giving this talk, as it’s based… Read more »
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WordPress 3.4 and ZippyKid
WordPress 3.4 is probably one week away from being released. Here’s a great summary of what to expect in the new version by Aaron Brazell. I wanted to give you guys a heads up on the upgrade process at ZippyKid. We’re ready, we’ve been running the latest version for the past few weeks, and we’re comfortable… Read more »
Worst Week Ever – Growing pains at ZippyKid
I’m sorry for the worst week ever, in the history of ZippyKid, and it’s happy customers. We’ve been having slow downs and downtime across the board. We’ve isolated the problem down to a strained and maxed out Firewall, which is operating at 80% CPU capacity, and near full limits of it’s bandwidth capability. We’re working very closely… Read more »
Celebrating Thanksgiving 2011 at ZippyKid
Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, I’ve asked everyone in the company to take the weekend off. That means it’ll be me alone who’ll try and answer tickets, and solve issues if and when they arise. So, apologies in advance, if the level of support goes down, or sucks, I know with between Kai, Roberto and… Read more »
How to host your WordPress blog alongside your Ruby on Rails app.
We’re starting to see a lot of startups from the different accelerators needing solid hosting for their WordPress blogs, the easiest solution is to just use a sub-domain (blog.mystartup.com) but most of our SEO friends recommend against it, as Google sees the content on the blog as a separate site and doesn’t necessarily relate the… Read more »
Announcing network wide SendGrid integration for Faster WordPress Hosting
We’ve grown quite a bit in the past 36 days, to be specific, we’ve doubled the number of websites we host, and quadrupled the bandwidth we use every month, in fact, according to Chartbeat stats, at any given moment, there are about 2000 people on our network*. What’s even more interesting, is that about 20%… Read more »
Accessing the remote ip of the user via Rackspace Load Balancers
Rackspace recently launched their load balancer service to the public, it’s an awesome service/appliance. It’s easy to setup, and works out of the box for most things. One thing we noticed that changed was that the REMOTE_ADDR of the visitor was no longer visible, most comments were being posted from the ip address of the… Read more »
What I learnt at PHP Community Conference (#phpcomcon)
Last week, I attended the PHP Community Conference , it was a chance to connect, and re-connect with a lot of people I interact with on a daily basis on IRC, Twitter, and mailing lists. The conference was organized by Lisa Denlinger, Ben Ramsey, and Nicholas Sloan, with a supporting cast that included the Cake… Read more »
Ideas of March
The PHP community blogosphere is coming alive again, thanks to a post by Chris. I thought I’d put in my two cents as well. Why I Like Blogs I can read them at my slow pace. They usually contain more information about a topic I’m interested in. Blogs create credibility, they show up in google… Read more »
Long term goals of ZippyKid
I’ve been fairly busy and quiet for the past few months, I wanted to stop that trend and give people some background on what’s going on. I’m having the time of my life, as some of you know, I’ve been closing down my consulting business, and ramping up ZippyKid. Lately, I’ve been approached by some… Read more »
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