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Wow, pretty big news week for DigitalOcean last week, after some strongly worded accusations about ruining somebody’s business. If we learned anything, it’s that off-site backups are an absolute must, especially if you’re serving Fortune 500 companies and/or providing SLAs.…
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Managed WordPress Showdown – May 2019 – Flywheel vs. Kinsta vs. WP Engine
Due to my ongoing efforts on my VPS Showdown series, I’m regularly being asked if I have any recommendations on hosting for WordPress. As it turns out, I don’t. Sure, you could leverage my existing reviews to pick a host…
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Slow and steady doesn’t win the race
The moral of Aesop’s fable, The Tortoise and the Hare isn’t a terrible one, but I’m sick of seeing it cited as a way to justify slow developer output. There’s nothing wrong with being a slow developer, but saying that…
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Explaining vs. Communicating
This isn’t a post about mansplaining or anything like that. I’m simply taking about explaining things instead of communicating them. In regard to project management, explanations tend to be a reactive act. Explanations are a way to justify why a…
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VPS Showdown – May 2019 – DigitalOcean vs. Lightsail vs. Linode vs. UpCloud vs. Vultr
Changing it up a bit this month. No new providers have been added, but by request, I’ve moved the entire operation overseas to test out data centers in London. Incidentally, every provider covered has a data center that’s actually in…
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How to install Node.js v12.x on Debian and Ubuntu
Feels like barely a week goes by without a new release from the Node.js team. This past week v12.0.0 was released promising speed improvements. It’s an important release because it’s slated to become the long-term service release in October 2019…
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Get Rid of Your Kids
Kids, they’re expensive. I don’t even what to think about how much it costs to raise a child from birth to age 18. And then there’s college. Hopefully they graduate and get into a decent career. Fingers crossed they aren’t…
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30 Days a Vegetarian
Never thought I would utter the words “giving up meat” and “for religious reasons” separately let alone together in the same sentence. Yes, I did give up meat for a bit, for the majority of the Lent this year. Nearly…
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How to address an envelope
Recently while dropping by my locally owned and operated UPS store, I got to overhear a question asked by an adult that appeared to be around my age. They asked the clerk where the recipient’s address was supposed to go…
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Stop asking for handouts
Rarely a week goes by that I’m not hit up by somebody asking me to do them a favor. By favor, I actually mean handout. Why do I mean handout? Because favors tend to be something that can be paid…