Fingertoe.com

I had an outage on all of my websites yesterday. This was the first time, in a very long time that I have had any substantial outage.

I have been using Dreamhost as my web host since 1999. I have been very happy with them. I bought a pretty full fledged account with them back in 1999, and they keep improving it without increasing the cost at all.

Apparently one of the sites that they host had a Denial of Service attack launched against it, and it took them most of the day to get their upstream providers to turn it off. One of the things that I really enjoy about doing business with them is that they have always been honest about their problems. When something goes wrong, they let you know that it went wrong, and they let you know what they are doing to prevent it from going wrong next time. I like that, and you don't find that with most businesses these days.

Posted by Josh Reighley at 10:00 PM | Permalink | Comments ()

Been playing with phpwcms lately. This is a open source Content management system. I am still learning the ropes, but it seems to be pretty darn good.

I have been fairly disappointed in most of the content management systems out there because they try to do too much, and do none of it very well. They tend to build websites a lot like Slashdot. Slashdot is cool, but most websites are not News-Blog communites.

phpwcms seems to do exactly what I want. It allows me to build web pages in whatever format that I would like, and enable the owners of the website to update edit or add content through an online form.

The only downside I see is that it does not use real URLS... It uses index.php?1,0,0,1 to link to a given page. I can probably live with that.

Posted by Josh Reighley at 8:14 AM | Permalink | Comments ()

I am trying out Movable Type. I have been using Blogger for quite some time now, and have been mostly happy with it, but I think that Movable type has a bit more power to it. I would like to learn a lot more about it, and there really is only one way for me to learn about something. I have to get my hands dirty and figure out how I can break it!

Posted by Josh Reighley at 10:49 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Welcome to Fingertoe.com (I don't know what it means either) I plan to use this website to share all of the things I am finding interesting. We will see what materializes.

Posted by Josh Reighley at 10:37 PM | Permalink | Comments ()