Monthly Archives: February 2009

Looking for a green host #2

By Chris | Published: February 11, 2009
In my last post I described I gave a primer outlining the differences between using shared hosting, having a full fat dedicated server to run your website on. I also explained why Virtual Private servers represent the best of these two worlds, and how finding a good affordable green host  was much harder than it really [...]
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Looking for a green host.

By Chris | Published: February 3, 2009
For the last two weeks, I’ve been looking for a good reliable, green, well priced hosting company that offers virtual servers in or around the UK, and it’s been largely a fruitless, frustrating endeavor. But in order to really explain why I’m doing this in the first place, it helps to give a summary of [...]
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On computer games and pushups

By Chris | Published: February 2, 2009
If you own an iPhone or iPod touch, you're curious about just how creative developers on the AppStore can be, you really should try out PushupFu - it's a great example of successfully applying computer game thinking to transform an existing, somewhat dull, if largely good for you activity, into a great little casual game. Pushupfu seems to be [...]
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