If you haven’t heard, Amazon’s EC2 service provides cloud-hosted virtual machines. Initially, they just supported Linux machine images, but recently have allowed Windows machine images. This means that you can create on-demand hosted virtual machines accessible from anywhere. I decided…
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Cloud Computing (and Azure) – Right for your site?
Everyone seems to be getting excited lately about the prospect of cloud computing. Just like many others, I get excited by the idea that I wouldn’t have to worry about adding servers to scale up. Theoretically, a guy (or girl)…
RIP RankTrend.com – Lessons Learned
In my last post, I started talking about two sites that I’m shutting down. Today I’m talking about the history RankTrend.com, and the lessons I learned. RankTrend.com was an idea and a vision that I had while we were…
RIP NaturalLinkExchange.com – Lessons Learned
In the past, my colleagues and I have had “big ideas” that we tried to turn into reality. Unfortunately, we never found that one idea that took 5 minutes to create, and made millions overnight. I think that’s everyone’s goal,…
