I found Rackspace Cloud (that’s a referral link, feel free to go direct) while looking for affordable VPSes (not for this blog, obviously – 2 posts a year is a reasonably small load). There are dozens of good, cheap VPS services, but Rackspace ‘Cloudservers’ are also ideal for things I’d have used several Virtualboxes for [...]
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LAMP stack on Glassfish
This covers an older version of Quercus on Glassfish v2; see here for a more recent stack Quercus is a cracking library from Caucho , the guys who make the Resin appserver. It lets you run PHP on a servlet engine, which sounds like fun. It’s (about) as fast as mod_php you avoid some of [...]
a fistful of dollars
You’ve probably noticed the ‘10% off everything within our borders’ Christmas sale the States are having. When you combine that with the price difference between US and UK shops, it’s tempting to import stuff (although customs are trying hard to dissuade me ). Luckily there no duty on bytes (give them time) . So it’s [...]
