I have been considering buying an iPad because it would make life much easier *if* it had the tools to become a mini-office machine where I could tap out letters and do some basic sorts of things. However, initial reviews suggested it couldn’t do these things so I held off and then my partner bought one. So I had a play with iWork and this is what I found.

This isn’t a post aimed at sysadmins, as they will know this already. However, it’s a post intended for a business owner or decision maker who places the contract for web hosting, and is intended to highlight at a high level some of the security risks that exist to their websites just by being on the Internet.

The auto-upgrade feature of Wordpress can stall on Cloud hosting. Here’s how to quickly and easily fix it to save time and effort.

I just read a post on Cloud Computing Journal that suggests that RackSpace will be rolling out Drizzle later this year on their Cloud, and are probably going to replace MySQL in the process. Drizzle is a cloud-directed, Linux-leaning, stripped-down, hitherto for unsupported, GPL 2 MySQL 6.0 fork that Rackspace is betting will infinitely scale, or at least scale better than MySQL. But what will that mean for the websites hosted on the RackSpace Cloud?

There is a lot of hype as well as valid discussion about the benefits of Cloud Computing. And while we hope that the faith we put in this elastic environment to scale and provide the flexibility we need to ensure our web applications are always running and performing at optimal levels for all our visitors, there will be times when things don’t go as planned.