Category: Hosting / Domains
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Response Time Comparison: GitLab Pages vs. Cloudflare Pages
While I compare VPS hosting providers every month, I actually don’t my personal blog (this site) on a VPS anymore. Come to think of it, I don’t even remember if this particular iteration of my own private slice of the Internet has ever been on a VPS instance. I’ve definitely…
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Speed Comparison: GitHub vs. GitLab (2020)
Been a minute since I’ve done one of these comparisons. The first one took place in 2016 with annual follow ups in 2017 and 2018. Then there was the curious case of 2019 where I had this post in my queue but never actually ran the benchmarks. I think the…
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Managed WordPress Showdown – July 2019 – Flywheel vs. Kinsta vs. WP Engine
So when I published last month’s post, later that same day it was announced that Flywheel was being acquired by WP Engine. There’s no timeline on if/when Flywheel would be fully consumed by the WP Engine brand, so they will continue to be featured on this list. If nothing else,…
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Managed WordPress Showdown – June 2019 – Flywheel vs. Kinsta vs. WP Engine
Wow, can’t believe it’s been 4 weeks since I started venturing down the path of reviewing managed WordPress hosting. Since this still a new post series, things are a bit all over the place, and I’m still working out some kinks. Fortunately, this month is going to have a few…
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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 to slap WordPress on, but what if you want to…
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Speed Comparison: GitHub vs. GitLab (2018)
It’s been over a year since I had last compared the speed of GitHub versus that of GitLab. In that time Github was sold to Microsoft and I’ve been adopting GitLab for all of my projects (completely unrelated to the sale, I promise 😉 The reason for moving from GitHub…
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Trigger a GitHub Pages rebuild with AWS Lambda and CloudWatch
GitHub Pages is pretty damn great. I’ve been using it for years now but one thing has always bugged me. If you want to schedule your posts in advance, they just never show up. Why? Because for posts to show up you have to trigger a rebuild of the project…
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Finding old pending comments in Disqus
I try to reply to each and every comment on my blog. It’s just common courtesy to my readers and I love to extend the dialog beyond the content of the post itself. Sadly though, I tend to only be diligent about replying for a week or so before starting…
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Speed Comparison: GitHub vs. GitLab (2017)
It’s been just a bit over a year since I did my original speed comparison of GitHub and GitLab. There’s been a lot of moving and shaking from both companies over that period. Some of it has been good, like GitHub changing their pricing and private repo offering. Then there’s…
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Using S3 to host images on a budget
I love Amazon Web Services (AWS) but am always apprehensive about the pricing. To be fair, I probably over analyze my needs and I end up not pulling the trigger on using them. One thing I do rely on is Simple Storage Service (S3) for storing image uploads from my…