Posts Tagged money
Oh, Compellent… again with the disk prices.
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on August 25, 2010
Time to expand the SAN again.
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Moving an Exchange 2003 server to another location with minimal risk and disruption?
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on April 14, 2010
So our Exchange server is located in our office building. This made sense at the time because that’s where the users are. Over time though, this has proved problematic for a few reasons. Primarily, our office is certainly not a datacenter and doesn’t offer the amenities of one – clean, reliable power, and redundant cooling. In an average year we lose power probably 10-15 times, often for an hour or more. The rest of our production environment is hosted in a top-tier datacenter, so after a while I started to wonder why our Exchange server wasn’t there, and making plans to move it there. Oh, and did I mention I’m not an Exchange admin in any sense of the term? I just inherited the Exchange server about 2 months ago.
Top Long Island teacher salaries
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on April 6, 2010
Average teacher salaries for Long Island school districts. Courtesy of NYS DOE, via Newsday – data are from 2005:
1 Fire Island $96,228 2 East Williston $93,001 3 Island Park $88,992 4 Quogue $88,975 5 Great Neck $87,444 6 Roslyn $87,277 7 Mineola $85,978 8 Lawrence $85,400 9 East Rockaway $84,130 10 Bridgehampton $83,568 11 West Hempstead $83,546 12 Jericho $83,150 13 Carle Place $83,088 14 Locust Valley $82,553 15 Port Washington $82,520 Read the rest of this entry »
Lotsa downtime.
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on March 18, 2010
Lots of power outages lately. Not the greatest time to move my site. 
Good thing I don’t need 99.99%+ uptime. Or even 95%…
Sped up WordPress by adding 1 index.
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on March 17, 2010
I noticed WP was taking a long time to load since I moved it. I added an index to the “autoload” column on wp_options and it seems to be much faster.
I still hate MySQL though. Postgres is so much better.
Website is moved.
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on March 16, 2010
I left Bluehost. They raised the prices (which seems to fly counter to what one would expect in the hosting industry with Google Apps breathing down their necks), and I realized I didn’t need it anyway. My MX records go right to Google. Anyway, time to go to sleep.
Cablevision loses WABC (Channel 7)?
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on March 7, 2010
Wow. Glad I left. I imagine this will be temporary (like the HGTV ordeal earlier this year).
On another note, I got my 3rd FiOS bill – still running a credit. That’s $43 for 3.5 months of great service. Good luck competing with that, Optimum.
Free DNS Hosting?
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on February 24, 2010
My Bluehost renewal is coming up soon and I’m really debating cancelling it. It’s like $8/month, but with my email going directly to Gmail now, this dumb blog is the only thing of note at evanhoffman.com, and I can move that anywhere. I already copied all the content to another server but I can’t find free DNS hosting anywhere. Maybe i’ll just run my own nameserver.
MAYBE!!!
Got my second FiOS bill
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on February 12, 2010
So I got my second FiOS bill a couple of weeks ago. After the issue with my first bill was straightened out I ended up paying about $43 for the first 6 weeks of service. Well, my second bill was about $90, but applied a $180 credit on my account, so the bill showed -$91. So basically the first 3 months of service will end up costing me about $43. Even if it comes to $90/month for the remainder of the contract, this is such a huge savings that I don’t see how Cablevision could match it.
.jobs domains – $120/year?
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on January 3, 2010
I saw that Cablevision has www.cablevision.jobs as the link for its jobs page. Curious, I looked up how much a .jobs domain cost. GoDaddy has them for $119! That’s insane!
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