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Comment on PHPDoc – How To Continue Comments In TextMate by great !

great ! — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:51:37 +0000

Hey !

Thank you so much for sharing those tips, the easy way was great.

Comment on Zend Framework: Redirect – The Easy Way by max4ever

max4ever — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:16:49 +0000

or redirect to url like this
$this->_redirect($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);

Comment on Setup Subversion with cPanel and Apache by Mostanser Billah

Mostanser Billah — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 06:12:42 +0000

Hi,
I have setup third party SVN unfuddle with cPanel hosting as dev server, you could visit my blog, thanks.
Here is the link:
http://codefighters.blogspot.com/2011/03/unfuddle-svn-setup-with-cpanel-shared.html

Comment on Stay Away From Rackspace Cloudsites by Lee

Lee — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:10:36 +0000

Hi Jeremy. It’s great to hear that the Cloud Site service has improved from when we were using it. If the stability issues have been resolved and you can work around not having SSH access then it would be a fantastic service. The support team is great and the control panel was really nice too. Thank you for updating this post with you positive experience.

Comment on Stay Away From Rackspace Cloudsites by Jeremy Barnish

Jeremy Barnish — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:21:44 +0000

We use rackspace for about 50-60 sites and we love it. No problems, up all the time, twice the response of my last time, easy to use panel. etc etc etc. I’ve been recommending it to clients like crazy. Also extensively using CDN. Sure, no ISP is perfect but they are far far better than this review implies.

Comment on Zend Framework: Redirect – The Easy Way by Donnie

Donnie — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:37:44 +0000

Thanks man!
But you’re a bit wrong. You said:
“_helper->redirector(‘target’, ‘example’);”

Actually it is:
“$this->_helper->redirector(‘target’, ‘example’);”

Or were you supposed to just grasp that like everything else in the ZF world..?

Comment on Vim Uppercase & Lowercase by Dreas Grech

Dreas Grech — Sun, 30 May 2010 15:20:09 +0000

To toggle between cases, you can use the ~ character.

In Command mode, it toggles the character under the cursor and in Visual mode it toggles the highlighted text.

Comment on Zend_Db_Table Not Returning Last Insert Id by Tudor

Tudor — Sun, 16 May 2010 05:28:20 +0000

Good one man. I lost quite some time with this one today

Comment on Stay Away From Rackspace Cloudsites by Joe Gardiner

Joe Gardiner — Wed, 05 May 2010 11:14:44 +0000

Hi Ben,

I got sick of rackspace cloud too. I’m part of a dev team and we’re in the final stages of developing our own hosting product. It’s more like a cluster than a cloud which enables us to give more control options to the user. Up to this point we have only been hosting our own projects in our data centre, but we’re shortly going to be releasing our vCluster to the public.

At the moment it’s free to use as we’re in the final stages of development, so I’d be interested to hear what you think, especially after your experiences with the rackspace cloud.

Have a look at our blog if you’re wondering what we’re all about.

Cheers

http://catn.com/blog/

Comment on Stay Away From Rackspace Cloudsites by Lee

Lee — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:50:40 +0000

No, Ben, we ended up getting a dedicated server at Rimuhosting. We’ve got 2 1TB drives in a raid configuration, a 2GB of RAM, and it’s running the Virtualmin Pro control panel. Rimuhosting doesn’t officially offer “managed” support but their support team is available via a ticket system and a live chat room (hosted by Campfire) and they are quite helpful. Admittedly, there are times when an issue is somewhat complicated and communication via the ticket system is slow and there is plenty of unnecessary back-and-forth communication when a real-time conversation would be far superior. Be that as it may, we have tried a large number of hosting companies and Rimuhosting offers by far the best combination of support and services for our needs. We now have 2 servers with them. Performance and reliability has been fantastic. When you compare apples-to-apples in terms of hardware, Rimuhosting is less than half the cost of a dedicated server at Rackspace. Of course, Rackspace support is indeed fanatical and you can get a real person on the phone any time any day and a lot can be said for that. Is it worth an extra $300/month? Maybe so, depending on your needs and what kind of applications you are running… and if Rackspace officially supports the stuff you are running. We have a high profile web application that handles electronic medical records and it runs on a dedicated Rackspace server. So, for that application, it our client thought it was worth the extra money for the fanatical support.

A note about “official” support, we were deploying 2 Ruby on Rails apps on a dedicated Rackspace server. At the time, Rackspace did not “officially” support Rails but, on the phone when I was being sold the account, they said they had plenty of folks on staff were very familiar with Ruby on Rails and they would be happy to help. This was back even before Phusion Passenger was well known and we were deploying to a cluster of Mongrels. The Rackspace Rails support couldn’t fill a thimble. Rackspace is a strong proponent of the Plesk Control panel and I was asking about how to setup Plesk to pass incoming requests through to our Mongrel Cluster. It seemed like a fairly standard thing to need to do but we got no help in setting that up whatsoever. Plesk is sort of “pretty” but is really a bad control panel if you need to do anything at all technical. So, anyone interested, please take a look at Virtualmin Pro. It’s cheaper, and far superior to Plesk in almost every way. I don’t know if Rackspace officially supports Ruby on Rails now or not, but I figured I share my experience.