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BBQ and free wifi
During my trip to Texas last week, I discovered that the Rudy’s BBQ in New Braunfels has free wifi! BBQ and free Internet access — doesn’t get much better than that. Needless to say, I made multiple trips to Rudy’s during my visit. When I am not in Texas, I get my fill of BBQ…
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When 100% is not 100%
Rackspace Managed Hosting is well known for their support and their 100% network uptime guarantee. One night last week, between approximately 23:31PDT and 23:51PDT there was an outage which affected Rackspace’s authoritative DNS servers and possibly other parts of their network. As a result, any site that uses Rackspace’s nameservers may or may not have…
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Load balancer testing
Over the past week here at wordpress.com, we have been doing some experimentation with various software load balancers. In the latest test, we are using Pound with a weighted round-robin algorithm between all of the web servers in a given datacenter. The individual weight takes into account hardware differences and any other tasks that server…
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Toobing!
So, I’m leaving on Thursday morning, heading back home to Texas for a week or so. I got tired of the 65 degree weather here in San Francisco and needed to experience the scorching 100 degree Texas heat once more this summer – yeah right. Regardless, should be a fun week ahead. Labor Day weekend…
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What’s up top?
Some of you may be wondering [what|when|where|why] the header image came from, so here’s the answer. I actually took that picture at this year’s United States Formula 1 Grand Prix in Indianapolis, Indiana. The picture is of Robert Kubica’s BMW F1 car as it brakes at the end of the Hulman straight just before turn…
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