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Top Virtualization blog voting now open

Eric Siebert over at vsphere-land has opened the 2013 voting for the top virtualization blogs. I am hoping to make it into the top 50 this year. This is the first time my blog has been listed and included for the voting, so I am excited to see what people think of my blog and its content. The top 10 sites I voted for are: Duncan Epping Kendrick Coleman Chris Colotti Eric Sloof Cormac Hogan Rawlinson Rivera William Lam Alan Renouf Frank Denneman Rick Vanover Anyone looking to vote should follow Eric’s criteria when choosing there top 10. Longevity – Anyone can start a blog but it requires dedication, time & effort to keep it going. Some bloggers start a blog only to have it fall to the wayside several months later. Things always come up in life but the good bloggers keep going regardless of what is happening in their […]

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Eating my own dog food - Blog Migration

Eating my own dog food – Blog Migration

I have now successfully migrated my blog site to a vCloud hosting provider, essentially Eating my own dog food. Practicing what I preach. Virtacore are providing the hosting through there vCloud Express Public Cloud offering. They provide there own portal to interface with vCloud Director and I must say it is quite impressive. The great side to now using a vCloud Express provider is that I now fully manage my own blog, from VM to OS to WordPress. This is great. If there is now an outage for maintenance I can only blame myself. For anyone who watched the Brownbag I did with Chris Colotti, you will probably be laughing at that statement. How did I do the migration? I downloaded a Turnkey Linux WordPress appliance. I then customised this appliance, ensuring VMTools were up to date, creating plenty of disk space for my images etc. Once this was all […]

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