The Parents Television Council can go fuck themselves.

Get a Drobo. It's a RAID cabinet that holds up to 4 SATA drives (newer models hold 5 or 8 drives). It's hot-swappable. You can add or replace drives without shutting it down, and if you need more space, swap a 1TB drive for 2TB.

I love DreamHost. I've been using them for several years. When they had a rough period a few years ago I switched to MediaTemple's gridserver (although I kept my DH account open and continued to host some less active sites there). Recently I became dissatisfied with MediaTemple when it started getting really slow and I was constantly getting GPU overages for two moderately busy self-hosted WordPress sites. I finally switched back to DreamHost and I'm very happy with them.

I use a DreamHost VPS, which lets me change the memory allocation as needed and reboot the server at any time. I recently switched my VPS from Apache to Nginx, which gave me a dramatic performance increase and reduction of memory usage.

I switched my virtual private server from Apache to Nginx and I found the memory usage dropped by nearly half and it runs a lot faster. I have two wordpress sites and one Drupal site on that server. The default Apache configuration uses a separate process for each connection, so the memory usage balloons with a lot of activity. Nginx defaults to use a single process, and the memory usage remains constant no matter how busy it gets.

Too bad he's using a Canon camera.

Everyone knew about the switch for more than a year and they had plenty of time to prepare. Anyone who doesn't know about the switch or isn't prepared is either an idiot or living under a rock. They should have done the switch earlier. I'm sick of seeing the ads about the switch.

Actually it's "Attack of the The Eye Creatures". Yes, "the" actually appears twice on the title screen.

My favorite history trick:

alias redo 'sudo \!-1'