New Server

My trusty HP Microserver N36L has been ticking along nicely for years with Windows 2003 at the helm, but with support for 2003 coming to an end an alternative was needed.

Recently I have been using Amazon EC2 cloud services for all my website hosting, new customers to the service get a 12 months free teir1.micro instance with myself opting for Windows Server 2012 R2 as my OS, and I’ve taken up this offer since October last year when an extended spell of server woes left me unable to serve websites.

A caveat with the free EC2 instance is the billing process, while the instance is free you have to pay attention to what is included as part of the offer, network usage, hard drive capacities and security keys are subject to charge over certain thresholds, so be aware.

With the trail due to expire in a few months I preferred to avoid an ongoing monthly cost and bring website hosting back to my own server, but not my current server as I didn’t want a box that served the web as well as store all my personal files. The logical conclusion was to get a new server.

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First Look At Windows 10

I just got my first hands on look at Windows 10, before I even start I must note that this is not going to be an in depth review of the system as I am just hopeless at writing reviews, so instead here are a quick few pointers of what I noticed.

Windows 10 Start Menu
Windows 10 Start Menu

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New iPad!

Hello,

It has been a while since my last post on this blog, I have a few hints and tips to put on here but my obsession with perfection and formatting get in the way of posts making it here.

However I have just taken receipt of the new iPad … 4 …. Retina … I don’t know what it is officially classed as. But I soon discovered the WordPress app for iPad, that is compatible with blogs hosted on own servers.20130425-173231

Hopefully more posts will be on the way!

Until then, here is a quick snap to test it’s photo ability.