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Articles & Reviews / General / Ubuntu / Ubuntu Planet — 2 Comments
23
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! :)

Ubuntu / Ubuntu Forums / Ubuntu Planet — 4 Comments
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%

Ubuntu / Ubuntu Forums / Ubuntu Planet — 10 Comments
15
Jun 09

Authenticate on Ubuntuforums with your Launchpad credentials!

The title says it all! Thanks to Anthony Lenton, one of Canonicals developers, users on ubuntuforums.org now have the option to authenticate on the forums using their Launchpad/OpenID credentials. The current requirement is you have an active forum account to accomplish this. In the future we’ll look at other options for tighter integration but this is a huge step forward.

Enjoy!

Apple & OSX / Articles & Reviews / General / Life / Ubuntu / Ubuntu Forums / Ubuntu Planet / Virtualization — 5 Comments
4
Jun 09

His facial expression is priceless!

Every spring we get our long-hair orange persian cat shaved because his fur gets so long and matted. This year he is really disguested with the fact his hair is gone :)

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