Alright, here it is. I’m completely paranoid about backups. Most people would be comfortable reading an SLA from a company and then sitting back and relaxing. I don’t buy it. I can’t relax about backups because I lost a startup to a lightning bolt in Charlottesville, VA in 1997. I’m totally paranoid about backups, […]
Category Archives: operations
Go read my interview with Jesse Robbins on O’Reilly Radar. Robbins is the Chief Community Officer at OpsCode, the company behind Chef. In this interview he talks about how the category is developing, how many people are aware of technologies like chef, and a space-age use of Chef to automate the creation of super mad-scientist […]

It’s about access and the continuing disconnects between most operations and most development efforts. Throughout the industry people just can’t come to an agreement when dev ends and ops begins.
My opinion after having used both? wush.net by a mile, wush.net’s customer service responds in minutes, and the big difference is that wush.net isn’t going to try to gouge you with extra fees. I signed up with CVSDude because I wanted to get out of the business of hosting SVN, but after all the various […]