Archive for the ‘hosting’ Category


FireFTP beats the duck crap out of CyberDuck

I had all kinds of grief trying to use CyberDuck with HostGator.  I couldn’t log in securely.  I couldn’t transfer files.  It was worthless.  FireFTP is a beautiful thing.

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What an accomplishment!

Who ever would have thought that moving a blog could be such a major endeavor?! For about three years, I’ve been running my blog on Pebble, a Java-based web app, running in Tomcat. For some reason, though, Pebble sort of lost its mind many months ago. I’ve been unable to post, or I could post [...]

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Did you know about this TLD???

I was reading a milk carton this morning (I had already finished the cereal box and spotted the strangest URL I had ever seen. It said organicvalley.coop. I thought “What a poor proofreading job, to put a nonexistent URL on your product package.” Well, it turns out that there’s nothing wrong with their proofreader. That’s [...]

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And we’re back…

Ugh! What a frustrating time it’s been, having my blog broken. There have been so many times I wanted to post something, but I couldn’t, because Pebble had lost its mind. It would sporadically accept new posts, then trash them. All the while, it’s spewing errors into my Tomcat logs at a rate of about [...]

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