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Is ‘The Cloud’ the way of the future?
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by Eric Dye
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Is ‘The Cloud’ the way of the future?
by Eric Dye
This past weekend I had a WordPress website migration to make.
It wasn’t your traditional migration, as the domain changed. With well over 500 blog posts, it wasn’t a small move, but I did learn a few things that I would like to share with you all.
After importing the old database info into it’s new place, I went ahead and changed the WordPress settings via MySQL (maybe will cover this more later). I thought I was done, until I realized that all internal links were wrong. From images to URLs, the blog was essentially broken.
Knowing that I could run some MySQL magic and update all of these in one routine, I hit-up Google on the deets.
Here’s what I learned:
by Eric Dye
If you’ve ever setup a server, did you ever think about how it impacted the environment?
Well, considering the masses of gear that Google requires to operate everyday, they have.
Journalist Andrew Blum is, like so many of us, fascinated by the Internet. But his dedication to finding out what the Internet really is goes a few steps beyond what most of us will do.
It all started with a squirrel chewing on his Internet, which caused him to wonder how something that wasn’t physically real could be chewed on by a squirrel. It led him on a journey to the place where the internet is real and physical: the data centers, sea crossings, cables, servers and switches that make the actual Internet.
Just watch his fascinating talk below.
by Eric Dye
Yesterday, we showed you five cool Transmit tricks.
Today, we’ve got five more to share!
by Jeremy Smith
The Internet is a vast sea of information that has literally come to change the way the world interacts. Just think that 30 years ago, most people did not know that such a thing could exist, now it runs much of our lives.
But could something so integral to our lives ever get fully shutdown?
It almost seems like a story out of a fictional drama bestseller where the world could go into chaos because of a end-of-world virus or some disastrous war. Yet, we saw a bit of the Internet go dark when a hurricane hit Virgina and the scenario became a little more real.
Here are some pieces of nuggets from the infographic below on what happened and predictions of what could happen with storms and the Internet: