Awhile back I posted about my PowerDNS interface and I’ve had a lot of interest. I’ll be releasing this code to the general public this summer, most likely towards the end of July. Stay tuned!
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Apr 10
Just a quick blog update..
I haven’t really blogged about anything in awhile so I figured I would do a quick right up on a new VPS I got running Ubuntu 9.10 on the VMware platform, in the past I’ve used a Xen based VPS from Slicehost and I’m currently using shared hosting from Fivebean. I’m particualy interested in this because myself and Matthew Helmke wrote a book on VMware awhile back and I wanted to see how the performance was compared to Xen or OpenVZ in a VPS market. So, I picked up this VPS a few days ago and it’s running Ubuntu 9.10, 25GB space and 256MB of ram for $20/bucks a month from Bluemile.
One thing I like about VMware vs. Xen or OpenVZ, is it’s almost bare metal, I can manage it like a Dedicated server without having limitations imposed like a Xen or OpenVZ.
In the next few days I’m going to migrate my blog and personal websites off shared hosting and back on to this VPS, just in time for the 10.04 upgrade next week! 
16
Dec 09
Ubuntuforums: In a month..
The ubuntuforums have grown to be one of the largest linux forums on the internet today with over 970,000 users. I thought it might be interesting to show some other statistics that were generated between 11/15/2009 and 12/15/2009.
Compare these to the numbers I posted in March 2007.
10,901,893 Visits
24,291,004 Pageviews
46.18% % New Visits
6,138,414 Absolute Unique Visitors
Returning Visitor 53.77%
New Visitor 46.23%
Firefox 69.97%
Internet Explorer 10.61%
Chrome 8.33%
Opera 3.80%
Safari 3.09%
Linux 58.11%
Windows 36.44%
Macintosh 4.70%
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Aug 09
Vmware Cookbook – Preview
Myself and co-author Matthew Helmke recently completed our VMware Cookbook which is being published by O’Reilly and will be on the shelved October 22, 2009.
Our editor Andy Oram posted a quick blurb with a couple of examples from the book. Check it out if you dig VMware ESX and virtualization..
http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/08/a-peek-at-vmware-cookbook-reci.html