Jack Reichert

Fullstack Philosopher

Tag: digital ocean

  • If you feel that this site is running snappier, you’re probably right.

    If you feel that this site is running snappier, you’re probably right.

    I went to 3 meetups this week: Codepen.io, WPNYC, and Web Performance NY. At two of them people mentioned Percona. So I thought I’d check it out. Digital Ocean has a great tutorial if you’d like to check it out: How To Install a Fresh Percona Server or Replace MySQL. I got stuck for a…

  • Why I went to the cloud…

    I was asked to write a blogpost about my server setup. Specifically, about “the best fixes for wrangling all of those crazy cables.” To which I responded: “Oh, I just use the cloud. Never used anything else.” Why don’t I host my own physical server? Cold hard cash. For the level of scale I need,…

  • Leveling Up Your Development Skills with a Pinch of SysAdmin

    “If you’re developing properly, you shouldn’t have to worry about whether your site is running Apache, Nginx or anything else. Your code should just work.” – anon When developing a plugin or theme for use by the greater community this is certainly true. Anything you put out there for someone else, should absolutely not be…