Category: Infrastructure
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Reasons Why WordPress Cloud Hosting is a Great Idea
As The World According to Mitch grows in popularity, I get a lot of questions from people about the tools and platform that I use. So when I was asked by Richard Myers if he could write a guest post about the platform I have been using for the past two years I was glad…
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Rebuilding SWMI… Not the company, just the infrastructure
I have been talking about rebuilding the domain for my company for several months, and finally sat down to do it this week-end. Because I was essentially destroying the old domain there were a few steps I needed to perform before going ahead. I performed a Backup of all of my data. Nobody in their…
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What not to Learn… Revisited for 2013!
In October, 2011 I posted an article called vPTA: What NOT to take away from my 1-day virtualization training! It was only partly tongue-in-cheek on the environment that I have been using for several years to demonstrate server virtualization from a pair of laptops. A few months later Damir Bersinic took that list and made…
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To be, or not to be: If you are IT it is not your decision!
I made what I thought was a reasonably innocuous statement in front of an audience a few months ago, and couldn’t believe the pushback I got. Our job as the IT providers – whether as in-house providers or as contractors – is not to make decisions. In fact, people are often amazed by how few…