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I’m on AWS

I’m gland (and proud) to announce that my blog is now hosted on Amazon EC2.

I was running this blog on my personal laptop using NO-IP to reattach my dynamic IP to my domain every time my computer rebooted.

The reason why I decided to move my blog on AWS is mainly because having a laptop running all day(s) long just to host a blog was a waste of money and energy.

AWS is free for the first year. Anyhow, given the traffic I will have on my blog it will be still cheaper than hosting it on my laptop.

AWS is great. It allows you to customize your environment at the nth power and it costs you only for the actual usage (the less people I will have on my blog, the less I will pay.. so please go away :)

Moving WordPress from my laptop to AWS was a 10 years old game.
Just run a mysqldump, copy all WordPress files with rsync (or scp if you prefer) and create the Apache VirtualHost and that’s it.

It took me few hours only because I had some issue setting up the users for MySQL.

If you are wondering why I’m running my blog on my own environment rather than running it on wordpress.com, these’re the answers:
1. Challenges – I can do what WordPress is doing
2. Data ownership – All data is mine and managed by me only… at some extent since everything is still hosted in the cloud.
3. I might use this EC2 instance for other project.. still without spending a penny!

I’m a happier (and richer and more eco-friendly) man now :)

Nico

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Which mobile phone do you think Einstein would own?

I was joking with my colleagues today about which one is the best between iPhone and Android.
One of my colleagues said: Based on a statistic (no origin provided :) ) iPhone owners are wiser.
Then I asked: What do you think Einstein would own?
Silence! :)

As you might guess, my answer was Android. Android phones are customizable, are varied, are open (kinda of) so to me the answer was obvious.

Einstein would have been able to disclose his mobile phone’s source code, he would have been able to create applications on it for free using any computer he wanted (I wonder if he would own a Mac), he would have been able to fix bugs on his mobile himself. He would have been able to store files on his mobile phone using ANY computer without installing any software. And finally he would have been able to make his phone his unique phone, different from anyone else’s. That’s why I think he would have chosen an Android phone.

Now, I’m very curious to know what others think about this. So, please give me (and the community) your feedback and let’s see if my colleague was right.

Which mobile phone would Einstein own in your opinion?

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