A short update: I am back into the blogging groove, but before that I had to complete a long pending update on this site. Many things needed tweaking, and I thought that a new, simpler, cleaner look was much needed. So here we are: Twenty Twentyone theme of WordPress, with…
Random Updates – May 2022
The end of May is approaching and I have not published any new post for over two months now. Which does not mean I have NOT been writing- quite the contrary. But more on that later. Thanks for all the visits, comments and feedback in the meantime!
VPS from Virtual Machines (Virmach) : Benchmarks in 2022
In this post, you will find results from benchmarks on two Virtual Private Servers from Virmach, located in Amsterdam and New Jersey, respectively.These servers had been ‘idling’ for the past few months. In 2022, I had decided to really cut down on the number of VPS benchmarks and reviews I…
First Impressions: VirtFusion Server Management Panel
In this post, you will find an introduction and overview of VirtFusion server control panel. This post is a hybrid of sorts, that is, will cover the “what” and the “how” together in this post. The “what” will cover how to install the VirtFusion panel, what are the minimum hardware…
Video Hosting and Delivery by Gumlet – First Impressions
In this post, we will take a look at Video Streaming using Gumlet’s Content Delivery Network of CDN. In the past I have used YouTube, Vimeo, and Publit.io for this blog. While we will shortly revive the YouTube channel, my plan is also to update the old videos for better…
Video:Introduction to Content Management Systems
Since 2018, I have tested and tried over 60 different Content Management Systems or CMS. The list includes the well known CMS – WordPress and Drupal, to the relatively unknown ones such as Datenstrom Yellow and Textpattern. Majority of the CMS are PHP based, while a few use node.js or…
Graphics Design for NexusBytes – Foto Friday
In this post, you will find a few selected graphics that I have created for Nexusbytes between 2020 and 2021. While I am hardly a graphic designer, I do like to tinker around with the SaaS apps that offer me to create some fun filled work.
Office Suite Journey: Staroffice in 2000 to Libreoffice Web Version, 2022
This morning I read a news update about LibreOffice, the free and open source office Suite. They are in the process of releasing web based version. For this, they will use a technology called LOWA. The development is in early stage at this point in time. I believe a demonstration…
Conclusion of February 2022 Blogging challenge and Way Forward
Welcome to Day 28 of the February 2022 blogging challenge. Today is a Monday, and the theme for Mondays is on podcasting under “MyPod Mondays”. I will be publishing a separate post on my podcasting blog, something that I haven’t done for the past two weeks. I had planned to…
Using Zoho Workplace for gaathastory- my Six Month Review
Welcome to Day Number twenty Seven of my Blogging Challenge. For today’s SaaSy Sunday, read my brief review of Zoho Workplace. It has been six months since we took the subscription. We have used Zoho Mail for over 6 years for our business. Around July last year we took the…