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Fail – Degrees Of Separation – Negatives And Pluses ISV Style

Negatives happen, fails occur. They are not signals to quit in all instances, or even most. They are grist for our respective mills. You might have three months or thirty years experience in an industry but you’re going to make mistakes, you’re going to have failures. It is not the end of the world.

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What’s Not To Like About Micro ISV Fails? Release Early? You’re Doing It Wrong!

Regular readers will remember June 2008 where a bunch of software developers elected to “build a product in 30 days”. Kind of the bungee jumping of rapid release and marketing. Those that followed will also be aware that only a handful of developers actually made it to the end in the sense that they actually released a product.

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VPS Update – Need For Speed

Now that Google has admitted site speed is a part of their ranking factor for websites – read Matt Cutts article, he suggests this is not a panic issue – and given I saw results for myself in the additional speed verses rank I figured it would hurt to play with what was reportedly a quicker service recently – Linode…

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SliceHost VPS, NGinX – Performance Outcome SEO Reporting To Come

OK, a few weeks back I blogged here that I’d moved my sites to a SliceHost account, installed the OS from scratch (Ubuntu Hardy), installed NGinx as the webserver etc. I’ve been fairly busy coding and haven’t updated here and I wanted to take the opportunity to both thank and recommend a service that certainly [...]

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Running On A SliceHost 384 Meg Slice Under NGinX – Impressed!

his post is the first one for this blog running under SliceHost. It’s been quite a month. I’m fed up – frankly – with webhosts!!

Now, it’s no secret that shared hosting is a busted ass for anybody getting more than 5 visitors a week and a couple of HTML pages. But it seems to have gotten worse. Indeed I’d argue at this point that the vast majority of the hosting industry is an enormous joke perpetrated in a manner to create endless sign-ups of new fodder – but not designed for anybody to stick around.

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