With the demise of the TextDrive Lifetime hosting accounts I needed a new home for my blogs and applications. On the forums a few people had mentioned Linode as a new home for my digital stuff, their site looked like…
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With the demise of the TextDrive Lifetime hosting accounts I needed a new home for my blogs and applications. On the forums a few people had mentioned Linode as a new home for my digital stuff, their site looked like…
Last week I managed to move both of my WordPress blogs onto Linode with just a a few easily solved issues with permissions and file ownership. One hurdle I did get stuck at however was WordPress being unable to create…
The end of the road for TextDrive has been on the cards for a number of months. Tickets have gone unanswered, Dean Allen, the saviour of all things TD has been AWOL since the split from Joyent and the entire infrastructure…
Here’s a bit of fun for the New Year, migrating my professional and personal blogs over to a new Server. Back in the early 2000s a small startup called TextDrive appeared online offering lifetime hosting for $200, lifetime being as…
Last month Joyent ceased to support their Connector suite of applications, the combined email, contacts and calendar app, next month they’ll be stopping the service completely. The Ruby on Rails app is several years old now and can’t really keep…
Recently I’ve been using PHP include function to present a common menu to a set of pages. As you’d expect it all works fine, the only problem being that the user can’t tell what page is currently being browsed from…