Below is my “Gut feeling” take on the acquisition, read it as such. Digital Ocean’s acquisition of Cloudways appears to be a defensive move to fend off hostile takeover or investor appeasement, that is, it is a finance driven investment rather than a strategic one. BACKGROUND In the last week,…
Category: Technology
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…
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…
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…
An overnight saga with file permissions for images while setting up CDN
Welcome to Day 24 of my Blogging challenge. For today’s Techie Thursday post, let us take a look at an issue that I faced while setting up one of the two *final* CDNs or Content delivery Networks for this blog. In a nutshell, I successfully uploaded thousands of pictures to…
Zoho Writer offers many features that you will love
Welcome to Day 20 of my blogging challenge. Today’s post is a hybrid. The first part of this post is what is known as a listicle. I began writing this post as a compilation of writing apps on the Mac that are used for blogging. I decided to use Zoho…
How to use email relay to protect your email for privacy
Welcome to number 17 of this blogging challenge.Today is a Thursday. The theme for Thursdays is Techie Thursday. I had written a post last year on using different ways to prevent these spam messages, and using relay services is one of them. This service has been covered earlier, in this…
How to migrate files and folders from google Drive to Koofr
What happens when you have a free Google account with 15 gigabytes of total storage, and you run out of space on your Google Drive? Can you migrate your files to a different storage provider? In today’s post, I will illustrate the different ways in which you can transfer files…
Sassy Sunday- 13 Feb 2022 Post
Welcome to sassy Sundays today is the 13th day of my blogging challenge and yesterday after a deliberate pause on the daily publishing Mind you I had crafted yesterday’s post and it is ready to be released. I’ll be releasing that later this evening. Having back to the topic today…
The Four Operating System Household – 2022 Edition
Summary: Having multiple devices with different operating systems and Apps waste time, consume un-necessary bandwidth, and are overall bad for productivity (and the environment). A few years ago, I had written a post on this blog with a very similar title. My premise back then was that with more and…
