Blogs About Website

  • Amazon EC2 vs Slicehost

    Submitted by jgordon on September 10, 2009 - 9:13pm

    Recently I decided to move my web hosting from dreamhost to another service. I took a look at amazon ec2 and slicehost. Setting up amazon ec2 was definitely worth the experience and I can absolutely see the value in it where short bursts of CPU power are required. However, I must say, it's pretty damn expensive to use as a web hosting solution. If what you want is your own private server in the cloud, then slicehost is way better. You get a small standalone machine, 1 CPU, 256MB RAM with your choice of linux distro on it. You get all that for a small $20 a month.

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  • Today's Site Updates

    Submitted by jgordon on June 15, 2009 - 4:05pm

    Today I added a coupld more portfolio pieces and I finished theming code example pages, projects and blogs. I'd say the site is about ready to rock 'n' roll. I need to add the contact page and resume page. After that I'm going to submit it to google directory for once. Heh...can't believe I've had a site for oh...10 years...and haven't done that yet.

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  • Today's Site Updates

    Submitted by jgordon on June 14, 2009 - 6:45pm

    Today I spent a couple more hours on the site. I mostly just did theming. I spiffed up some views here and there and made some minor tidying on the home page.

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  • Website Updating

    Submitted by jgordon on June 13, 2009 - 2:23pm

    I spent most of today (Saturday) updating this here website. I put in most of the infrastructure, that is, Projects, projects views, Blogs and blog views, and even Photos views based on the files table. I'm getting quite sleepy because I stayed up late last night playing a freakin sweet game called Agricola with my friends. We are nerds! But in an awesome way.

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