Servers: WordPress, Mastodon/ikiwiki, Clown Computing, and Oracle on Docker
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The Month in WordPress - December 2022 - WordPress News
Last month at State of the Word, WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy shared some opening thoughts on “Why WordPress” and the Four Freedoms of open source.
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Mastodon comments in ikiwiki - anarcat
Today I noticed bounces in my mail box. They were from ikiwiki trying to send registration confirmation email to users who probably never asked for it.
I'm getting truly fed up with spam in my wiki. At this point, all comments are manually approved and I still get trouble: now it's scammers spamming the registration form with dummy accounts, which bounce back to me when I make new posts, or just generate backscatter spam for the confirmation email. It's really bad. I have hundreds of users registered on my blog, and I don't know which are spammy, which aren't. So. I'm considering ditching ikiwiki comments altogether.
I am testing Mastodon as a commenting platforms. Others (e.g. JAK) have implemented this as a server but a simpler approach is toload them dynamically from Mastodon, which is what Carl Shwan has done. They are using Hugo, however, so they can easily embed page metadata in the template to load the right server with the right comment ID.
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Cloud storage pricing – how to optimise TCO
The flexibility of public cloud infrastructure allows for little to no upfront expense, and is great when starting a venture or testing an idea. But once a dataset grows and becomes predictable, it can become a significant base cost, compounded further by additional costs depending on how you are consuming that data.
Public clouds were initially popularised under the premise that workloads are dynamic, and that you could easily match available compute resources to the peaks and troughs in your consumption, rather than having to maintain mostly idle buffer capacity to meet peak user demands. Essentially shifting sunk capital into variable operational expense.
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Sean Scott's “Oracle on Docker: Running Oracle Databases in Linux Containers” Debuted as a #1 New Release on Amazon - Technology Today - EIN Presswire
Viscosity North America, Inc. ("Viscosity") is excited to announce the recently published book about containers as an effective Oracle database storage and design tool. "Oracle on Docker: Running Oracle Databases in Linux Containers," written by Sean Scott, Viscosity's Managing Principal Consultant and Oracle ACE Pro, debuted in the No.1 position among the Amazon Hot New Releases in the Linux Networking & System Administration category during its first month.