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Craphost.com and WTFServe.com

Abi Rendon — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:44:19 +0000

I’m in the process of doing some upgrade to our current infrastructure, part of this upgrade is also to add new services to the Azuretek Web Services roster.

Right now we only have been doing OpenVZ based VPSes with pretty good success at wtfserve.com. Recently however we’ve decided to invest a lot of time and money into bigger and better things. Right now we have a few Atom based servers that we expect to sell well. We are also migrating from OpenVZ to Xen Source as our virtualization platform.

Part of these changes include the addition of WHMCS and SolusVM so that we can more easily provision and bill our customers.

In addition to all these new services and features we’re working on a re-design of wtfserve.com as well as the launch of our new commodity web hosting service craphost.com.

Adam Carolla Podcast!

Abi Rendon — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:58:34 +0000

Now that The Adam Carolla Show is off the air he’s moved over to a podcast format, listen to him now!

http://carollaradio.com/2009/02/23/acp-20090223/

Check him out, uncensored and unedited.

New URL and Design

Abi Rendon — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:12:09 +0000

As some might have noticed, I’ve recently updated my domain to abirendon.com and I’ve also applied a new wordpress theme, just made a few tweaks but it all seems to be working splendidly and it looks good.

I’ll be posting some guides on setting up and configuring VMWare ESXi, converting VMWare Server VMs to ESXi format, configuring a raid 5 array on an MSA20 via linux command line and hopefully some more interesting pictures.

I’ve also just bought an iphone so I’ll probably be messing around with doing updates on the go.

I am voting for…

Abi Rendon — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:33:07 +0000

Nobody!

If you’re an American of the United States variety you may have noticed there’s an election going on, and on, and on, and on. It’s been a long standing tradition amongst our culture in this great nation to stretch out events as long as possible, if you’re not picking out presents in August you might as well end it all now because god knows your grandchildren need new socks at the ready for that special day oh so many months away.

It seems like it’s been 2 years since this Election’s campaigns started, some might even say they’ve been going on for longer, speculation of Hilary Clinton running for office was going on since before the 2000 election. I ask you though, why? Why is there this need for us to constantly be waiting for an event that ultimately means nothing?

You might be shaking your head, asking “What’s with this guy? Of course it means something, it means everything!” But does it really? When was the last time you were directly affected by a new president? You might be saying “My brother is in a foreign country because of war!” or “I’m in the poor house because our president ruined the economy!”. Well I have a secret for you, economic turns and wars happen regardless of who is in office!

We had a VERY prosperous 10 years or so during the Clinton era, what else happened during that time? The dot com boom, and what happened around 9/11? The dot com bubble burst! Several new jobs were created and just as quickly several jobs were just as quickly dissipated. Same with wars and threats, we have Vietnam, Iraq v1, Kosovo, Cuban missle crisis hell every little skirmish in the middle east ties up our military for decades. Do you think it really makes that much of a difference who is in office?

I grew up in Arizona and McCain has always been great he’s changed in his political views a lot during this campaign. Obama is a great charismatic person who has a lot of views that fall in line with my own, but how can we really know who he is? In the end what is the difference between the candidates? Race? Age? Tax plans that have a history of not being enacted and even so are different by mere fractions? It’s always going to be the same, the rich people will always be taxed more, the poor people will always want more social services.

Nothing will change and we will always progress regardless of who’s in theoretical charge. I say we vote, vote for apathy, don’t vote at all who cares in the end anyway? If you decide to vote anyway, vote for progress, progress for progress sake is better than doing nothing regardless of the outcome.

edit: Vote Stephen Baldwin