Cormac Moylan

I spent about eight or so months with EuroVPS and a further six months with 1and1 before moving my hosting back to Ireland with Blacknight Solutions.
The reasons I went with EuroVPS and 1and1 instead of a local company were purely bandwith and disk storage reasons. There is no hosting company in Ireland able to complete [...]

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I always get nervous whenever I need to transfer files. I get really nervous when that transfer involves a database. When you’re transfering files which are tied to a database you must ensure that everything syncs’ up properly on the other end.
I recently migrated my Wordpress blog from EuroVPS to Blacknight, while keeping the same [...]

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According to Google Trends the answer is yes.

The Linux Advocate first brought this to the attention of the masses when he wrote:
“Linux has not only surpassed its major competitor in Linux ( SuSE ) in popularity, as well as the distro it’s based off of (Debian) , but it seems to have also surpassed another [...]

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My Compaq Presario 1200 doesn’t have a high enough spec to run Ubuntu but the 1Ghz P3 processor and 128mb of RAM is just dandy for XUbuntu which is a more light version of it’s sister.
XUbuntu uses a Xfce Desktop which makes it ideal for low spec machines, apparantly. The only difference i have seen [...]

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