Category: Opinion
Intentional Down Time - for Servers
This is an anti-trend post about internet servers and electricity. What if the assumption that servers should be always-on 24x7 is too simplistic? Could there be some amount of time that servers and their connected online businesses are intentionally offline during each month, that wou
Windows Server 2016 Nano - In Practice on AWS EC2
I have decided NOT to use Windows Server 2016 Nano at this time. The following explains what I got working, and where I got stuck.I wanted to run custom Windows services compiled with Delphi for win64, and have them serve dynamic web content through IIS using a custom ISAPI extension, as I do on Win
Windows Servers: Monitoring and Rebooting remotely
Dear Overworked Server Admins,In this article, I put together a couple of shareware utilities that seem (to me) to be indispensable for Windows servers in remote data centers.For server monitoring, Servers Alive fromhttp://www.woodstone.nu/salive/index.phphas been a lifesaver for many years. The fre
Budget travel: London Heathrow to Eurostar in Ashford UK
Say you want to take advantage of theEurostar trainfrom London to Europe, how do you get from Heathrow to the train? Aside from booking a limo, if you want to use public transportation, take the Underground(details here)to Kings Cross / St. Pancras Station, for 4 GBP, and then take National Rail th
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