Tag: server
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Recent changes in my health have made it such that some days I’m couch-bound upstairs, while my office (and primary work computer) is in the basement. This has led to some interesting solutions for my daily work. My day job at Oracle I can mostly do from my couch and my work laptop. The only…
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If you run a website and aren’t serving your assets from a CDN, I want to highly recommend that you do so. I’ve seen significant performance improvements simply by redirecting my image, CSS, and JS requests to a CDN instead of serving them from a server like DreamHost. I like DreamHost just fine, but the…
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I wanted short urls for Dimspirations, and I wanted a custom domain name (dim.moi), but didn’t want to pay the somewhat exorbitant prices to do so with something like Bit.ly. So I set out to build my own URL shortener. PHP/mySQL seemed like the path of least resistance on my current server setup, so I…