My six month old daughter reminds me that the world is our playground.
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Lloyd Budd
WordPress Digital Entomologist, WordPress.com VIP Hosting Services Lead, Open Source and Free Culture Participant
My six month old daughter reminds me that the world is our playground.
One of my goals for 2010 was to donate blood regularly.
I’m proud to report that I donated blood four times in 2010 bringing my life time donations to 20.
I’ve already given blood once in 2011!
Because blood is the most precious gift.
Call 1-888 2 DONATE [Canadians] to make the appointment to save a life.
Just as I was starting to get in a writing flow my shared web hosting at Joyent had a 31 hr outage.
I never really know what I should expect from shared hosting, it’s all Random A$# Shared Hosting (RASH), but this still pained me.
I emailed Joyent support yesterday:
“Regarding http://help.joyent.com/index.php?pg=forums.posts&id=942&pc=2 why is there no final resolution on that thread? Why did it take ~ 31 hours to resolve this issue? What is being done to prevent this issue in the future?
It’s also upsetting when an issue is downplayed as “performance issues” or “slowness”. I couldn’t publish content to my site at all for over a day and a half, and Google Analytics show that few visitors made it to my site those days and those that made it might be thanks to the front end content delivery network CloudFlare.”
The response only made me feel a little better:
“The why didn’t it get updated would be my fault as I didn’t post when the resilver finished.
The why it took 31 hours, is that is how long the resliver process took (minus the losing 5 hours on the first replacement drive failed and had to be replaced a second time)
Sorry about the issue.”
I know I’m a bottom tier customer, and it was a long time ago that Joyent was really in the shared hosting business, but I still imagined them being able to resolve almost any problem within a handful of hours.
It’s worth noting that Joyent has been pretty good to me these past 5 years.
host-tracker.com free 30 minute interval:
2011 :ast week uptime:78.40% Downtime:1 day(s) 7 hour(s)
2010: Yearly uptime: 99.96% Downtime:2 hour(s) 52 min(s)
2009: Yearly uptime: 99.71% Downtime:6 hour(s) 31 min(s) – started monitoring only 2009-03
2008: The first half of 2008 was a dark year on textdrive, and I whined to some people I knew at Joyent back then.
2006-2007: was OK on textdrive.
Today, six months in the making, we finally had our Home Depot corner kitchen cabinet installed.
…allow everyone to easily publish on the Web!
And to make that happen, WordPress must be an easy to develop and design web publishing environment.
Stop! This is comparing apples and oranges. [WordPress] is a honed, refined blogging product that does one thing very well, whereas Drupal is a flexible, extensible CMS plus a huge set of tools for building websites, web applications, and integrating with other tools.
By “jam – Senior Wr….”, “The time is right for Drupal products“
It’s frustrating that competitors are still trying to pigeon-hole WordPress. The satisfying irony is that I expect WordPress’s use for non-blog sites is growing faster than the competitors.
Sure, we have biases. We are biases towards familiarity, usability, and not stressing people — letting people be awesome!
A leading example of what you can do with WordPress 3.0 CMS features is what CBS, with the help of VOCE Communications, have already created for nearing 200 CBS Radio and CBS Local properties. Sites like:
There are countless other examples, but a few have been cataloged at wordpress.org/showcase/tag/cms/