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Technology

Server Upgrade

OK. Just wanted everyone to know that after many happy years with Bluehost, I’ve decided that it was finally time to move this blog and some of my other major projects Live in Limbo and Voice of Valeri over to a faster Virtual Private Server (VPS) at Knownhost. I actually learned quite a bit about web servers and other technical details about the migration process. Both very intriguing and exhausting at the same time.

I have nothing but high praise for Bluehost, there is nothing wrong with them at all. I’ve always been able to contact them direct 24/7 and have any issues I had fixed pretty swiftly. So why did I move away from them? Well, Bluehost is a “shared-host” in that on one server, they host hundreds of other clients websites and databases with a shared IP address. My larger websites like Live in Limbo have been starting to get much higher traffic and a lot of CPU throttling issues have been plaguing the performance of the site.

Enter VPS, I get a dedicated IP address which helps greatly for SEO and web presence. I also get a guaranteed amount of RAM from my server which results in much better loading speedings and consistency in performance. In the world of VPS, there are different managed types including unmanaged, managed and hybrids. Knownhost is a fully managed VPS service, so I still get around the clock technical support from experts and management systems like cPanel.

Earlier this week, I went ahead and purchased the VS-2 package from Knownhost which includes 960MB of RAM, 40GB of RAID-10 disk space and 2.5TB of bandwidth. This is pretty competitive in my opinion when compared to others such as WiredTree and LiquidWeb. These guys were super helpful, especially Dan and Paul who escalated my concerns and successfully migrated all of my websites’ data and files over to their servers. So far I am extremely happy with their support and strongly recommend them for anyones hosting needs.

Update: The VPS-2 package has since been generously upgraded to 1024MB Guaranteed RAM, 50GB RAID-10 Disk Space, 2x Priority 8+ CPUs, and 2500 GB Premium Bandwidth, at no extra cost to me.

 

2012/11/25
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Inspirational, Science & Medicine, Technology

Thoughts on Mining Space

So, you may have heard about this brand new startup called Planetary Resources in the news lately. And it’s the real deal! This organization is being led by some of the affluent billionaires in the world. Individuals such as Eric Anderson, Peter Diamandis, James Cameron and Google CEO Larry Page as well as many more will be out and about in space to harvest precious minerals from near by asteroids.

This venture is going to be revolutionary, it is the film Avatar coming into reality in the search for the conceptual “ubobtainium”. Essentially, Planetary Resources will be out hunting for things platinum and fresh water. Perhaps they can do to platinum what we’ve done with aluminum? Imagine all the breakthroughs in technology and science that could be achieved with vastly cheaper precious metals.

You can also bet that this high-cost mission will reap astronomical rewards for the team as well. Mashable states that all of the elements in certain asteroids could be worth 20 trillion dollars!

What do you guys think of this? Tweet me @SeanChin.

2012/05/01
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Inspirational, Technology

Abundance

Peter Diamandis, founder of the X Prize, discusses the optimism that we’ll invent, innovate and create ways to solve the challenges that loom over us. “I’m not saying we don’t have our set of problems; we surely do. But ultimately, we knock them down.”

2012/03/15
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Technology

Opinions on BBX

I watched the entire RIM presentation live today. Basically, the brand new “BBX” operating system is a marriage of BB OS 7 and QNX. They strictly talked about the OS and it’s “under the hood” technicalities. No new hardware in particular yet. From what I saw, they have a lot of neat graphical and UI features baked into the OS. However, imo they only seem like fancy things that would drain battery and not something I care too much about in a mobile device.

Their presentation overall was pretty yawning for the most part. I understand it was for devs only too, but they didn’t get too many dev cheers. BBX also has a new BBM Social app thingy…they showed off some Android to BB app converter, but it kept crashing on stage…

Overall, as usual, on paper, new BB’s seem like they should be successful, but they never turn out to be anymore these days. I was really really hoping they’d do something amazing today. Balsillie promised it was a going to “leap-frog” the competition…I personally, did not see an ounce of that at all.

2011/10/19
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