Michael Richard Murphy

I’m pleased to announce that Radiant Skin Clinic, a client of mine, is now a certified green site!

Over the last few weeks we had been experiencing a lot of performance problems with our old host. The situation didn’t seem to be improving and after a few days of truly abysmal loading times, we decided it was time to move to a new host. I’ve always heard great things about Dreamhost so we went with them. With 500GB (increasing weekly) of storage and 5TB (increasing weekly) of bandwidth, their pricing and plans can’t be beat. It’s an added bonus however that Dreamhost purchases Renewable Energy Credits to offset the carbon emissions generated by their business activities.

While I wouldn’t recommend selecting any service provider based solely on whether they’re carbon neutral or not, so far Dreamhost service and the features have been impressive. Clicking on the “green site” badge above will take you to a Dreamhost page with more details on other steps they’re taking to minimize the effects of their business activities.

Now that my MacBook is back, my plan for the weekend is to get Ruby, Rails, and MySQL up and running using Dan Bemjamin’s tutorial at HiveLogic. I got everything running pre-hard drive crash but never had the chance to play around and learn Ruby.

Unfortunately it’s also time to buckle down and do some much needed maintenance and upgrades to some WordPress and other applications I have out in the wild.