Posts tagged with: joyent

I think one of the greatest features of Habari is it's multi-site support. Unlike Wordpress, Habari has multi-site support out of the box. This allows you to configure multiple blogs off a single installation of the code with a fair amount of control over how independent each of these blogs are. Each new blog can have it's own domainname (they don't even have to be subdomains), database, themes and plugins. However, if you prefer, they can all share the same set of themes and plugins too thus making managing and maintaining all of your sites a very simple affair. In this post I'll detail how you can take advantage of this functionality on Joyent's Shared Accelerator hosting without using up more than one of your allowed "websites", thanks to aliasing and Habari. Whilst these instructions are based on Joyent's hosting plan, they may be very similar for your hosting plan too. Let me know if these instructions work for your hosting solution too. Continue reading ►

Habari has some pretty stringent requirements that need to be met. Thankfully Joyent's Shared Accelerator (and I believe all other) accounts meets all of these already so there's no need to install any additional software or log tickets to get software updated. You will however need to make some configuration changes which I'll detail here. Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 9 Nov 2007 - 22 Nov 2007: Google as a password cracker - Another good use for Google - password cracking. Ok, it's not true passpord cracking, but rather MD5 hash pattern matching. Cloud Computing Infrastructure for Facebook Developers on Dell Servers. What does it mean? - I'm a very disappointed in Sun here. Joyent are probably the best known OpenSolaris users, and yet Sun couldn't pull finger and treat them with the care they deserve. Come on Jonathan, sort it out. Porting Open Source Java to Leopard - Wow. That didn't take long and is... Continue reading ►