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Running on Azure

By ezs-admin On December 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In evilzenscientist

Relatively painless – and great performance!

I’ll write up some better notes – but my first impressions:

- need to understand more about the cloud storage service and blob storage - build and assembly of the Azure VM is done offline - PHP on Windows + IIS works well so far - SQL server (specifically [...]
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WordPress on Azure

By evilzenscientist On November 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In evilzenscientist

I have started looking at WordPress running on Azure – Microsoft’s public cloud app fabric. One area I am really interested in investigating is the performance and scalability of a PHP app – with particular reference to Gallery integration.

Notes and comments in the coming months.

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Goodbye Netflix

On September 30, 2011 By evilzenscientist

Another step in cutting the cord – but this is a strange one.

We’ve been Netflix customers for over nine years – I signed up before we moved to Utah.

Last month I removed the streaming option and reverted back to just physical DVDs; today I cancelled the whole service.

At the end of [...]

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Picking up the blogging again

On September 22, 2011 By evilzenscientist

Firstly – it’s been too long without posting here. Lots of reasons, lots of excuses – mainly workload and not having anything public to blog about.

Secondly – I’ve changes roles inside Microsoft – moving from Business Development (where nothing is public or bloggable) and into customer facing enterprise strategy.

The role is a great [...]

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Embedding video in blogs

On February 6, 2011 By evilzenscientist

Another in an occasional series – collating my notes on blogging and infrastructure that I’ve sent to my customers.

This time discussing the fun of getting video embedded into your blog.

Background

The original conversation was when I was self hosting. Dropping a video into the blog was easy – the issues were [...]

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“Snowpocalypse”

On January 9, 2011 By evilzenscientist

Tsk. Snow is forecast for mid-week – and the local media are going insane over the possibilities of between 3” and 12” (7cm and 30cm) of snow.

Here’s the forecast:

Cliff Mass has some reasoned discussion on his NW Weather Blog.

Updates from “Snowpocalypse central” during the week.

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Killing boxes

On January 9, 2011 By evilzenscientist

I’ve got rid of five more servers out of the rack this weekend.

Web server - this was a nice fat server for virtualisation; now repurposed with a nice video card and it’s a media server for the home theatre.

Old media server is now dead. So long!

Old MP3/itunes/TVersity server is now consolidated with [...]

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The end of an era – no more self-host

On January 6, 2011 By evilzenscientist

After a decade of static IP and reasonable bandwidth I finally ended my ‘experiment’ and ‘learning lab’ which was self-hosting.

Before we moved to the US I ran NetWare 5.1 from my WW2-era bomb shelter under my house in Nottingham. This was the home for my email (running NIMS – subsquently NetMail) and a [...]

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Infrastructure changes – Covad and GoDaddy frustrations

On January 3, 2011 By evilzenscientist

Most of the way through the infrastructure changes at the moment.

A recap:

Migration of mail from Google Apps to Hosted Exchange. Migration of DNS from current service provider to ‘someone new’ Migration of blog/photos to ‘somewhere in the cloud’

Step one – the mail switch was relatively painless – it needed some careful [...]

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First 10GB of photos moved

On December 8, 2010 By evilzenscientist

Tar, split, scp, cat, md5sum – the first 10GB of photos are now moved up to the new hosting server.

Slow business – but now it’s a job to re-knit the gallery2 database and see how that all performs.

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