2009 was an awesome year. A lot of amazing things happened in the world of hosting (and a lot happened in the world of Harper too). Being a crazy hosting aficionado, I will summarize my thoughts on hosting in 2009 (I will leave the predictions for 2010).
Disclaimer: I am paid money by Rackspace to think [...]

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I am leaving Threadless after 4 awesome years.
It was super hard to leave a job that taught me so much, helped me grow and was staffed by all of my friends, but I needed to make that leap towards the future. (Here is a nice interview covering all sorts of aspects of my leaving.)
I did [...]

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I spend WAY WAY too much time trying to figure out where and how to host my websites. I guess you could it a hobby. A really horrible and expensive hobby. It isn’t a great way to meet friends, enjoy life or honestly save money. However – it prepares me for the awesome ability to [...]

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In the past week there were a couple of companies(tumblr and 37signals) who publically blamed Rackspace for the downtime of their sites (tumblr here and 37signals here, here) . In both cases the downtime wasn’t widespread and was limited to the individual sites. In both cases someone from the respective site blogged about how it [...]

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I hate web hosting. I really do. I think that hosting is one of the most annoying parts of having web apps. It is hard to do. it is hard to manage. It is always more expensive that it needs to be. And it is constantly breaking in ways that severely damage whatever app is [...]

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i am pretty sure i was a bit tipsy when i wrote my last rant/entry. hah. but nobody knows. i can’t possibly imagine that it makes a whole bundle of sense.
Last night i watched “Lost in translation” and a bit of “Endless Sunshine of a blah blah blah.” Tonight i am watching “Jesus’ Son.” Such [...]

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