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Dreamhost -vs- A Server In My Garage

The graph of time spent downloading a page from Google Webmaster Tools pretty much speaks for itself. May & June = Dreamhost, July = Server In My Garage Hosted On A Cable Modem. Possibly Related Posts: Real Life Exchange 2010 Disaster Recovery Outlook 2010 Question How to perform a System State Backup on Windows 2008 with Windows [...]

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Tech Consolidation

I’ve decided to take a slightly different approach with my tech consolidation. Instead of Windows Home Server I’m going to consolidate my multiple boxes down to a single SBS 2008 box EDIT: plus whatever else I need for my studies. Not exactly sure of the path I’m going to take yet. My current systems are [...]

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Comcast Internet throttling is up and running

Although I doubt it does, I have still yet to get an answer on whether or not this affects my business class cable connection. Since I pay a hefty premium for it I would be somewhat upset if it does, but… For those of you on residential connections, be aware. It’s supposedly ‘protocol agnostic’ but [...]

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If You Can Read This

If you can read this, you’re hitting the new server which is sitting in my mini-datacenter in the garage. Comments on speed and appearance would be appreciated. Possibly Related Posts: Unbeknownst to most.. The Birthday Skeleton Seriously?

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WM 6.1 on Moto Q9c

I upgraded my Sprint Q9c to WM 6.1 last night and so far have been fairly impressed. The exception would be that I lost all my personal settings but everything I really care about is synced to Exchange, so it was a quick 10 minute reconfiguration. There are quite a few things I absolutely love; [...]

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So, The SonicWall Isn’t Working Out

The only feature that it is lacking, and I desperately need, is QoS. I run a lot of torrents (I’m a Linux ISO fanatic, collecting every ISO of every distro I can find) and I also run a VoIP PBX (3CX) with a SIP trunk to VoicePulse Connect. Unfortunately VoIP & BitTorrent don’t play well [...]

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