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VPS Showdown - November 2019 - DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
Not a ton of movement since last month, other than DigitalOcean's announcement of their memory-optimized droplets being generally available. I decided to bring things back state-side again, targeting the west coast data centers for each provider. As always, I'm using [...]
What is MRR?
Why even do a post on what MRR is? Because I've come to realize that there are people out there, that consider themselves to be entrepreneurs, that actually don't seem to know the difference between MRR and monthly transactions. I've [...]
How to loop through all files in an S3 bucket in PHP
Recently I decided to finally tackle the ever growing S3 bucket for the niche social network I run. The reason it's ever growing is because I never implemented any sort of hard deletion logic. At one point, I was planning [...]
Own your mistakes
I fucked up recently. Nothing that put any lives in danger, fortunately. You see, I started doing a re-engagement campaign to reach out to all of my users that weren't currently on my semi-monthly product update newsletter list. This is [...]
VPS Showdown - Singapore - October 2019 - DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
One of my bigger pain points with doing these comparisons is that it's really hard to line all of the providers in the same geographical region. Things tend to be close, but there's always an outlier (looking at you Amazon [...]
Installing Linux on the New Dell XPS 15 7590
As much as I love my System76 Galago Pro, I have been wanting to upgrade to a system with a higher screen resolution (not just the overall size) as well as get into a rig that had a newer processor [...]
Migrating from Mailchimp to EmailOctopus
I started the year off on a free Mailchimp plan. I've been a free user for ages now and decided that I wanted to start taking my email marketing seriously. This included knowingly growing my lists beyond what the free [...]
How to fix a borked USB flash drive
So this post was supposed to be how I [yet again] fixed an issue with a USB flash drive that I use for installing Linux. The USB flash drive in question is "the blue one" that I picked up back [...]
The fallacies of unlimited
This topic has been rattling around in my head for the last few years. It was brought to the forefront of my brain by a chance encounter at the mall with a Verizon store employee this past weekend. Who's your [...]
VPS Showdown - September 2019 - DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
September already! Linode was tangled up with StandardJS's funding experiment. DigitalOcean added some new managed databases (still no MongoDB). Nothing else to report from the other providers, but honestly, month to month, most of the other providers don't usually have [...]