2012 Most Popular Articles

Posted by JD 12/30/2012 at 21:02

Most Popular Articles for 2012, in order

So it seems that our readers use VirtualBox, want to run Quicken on Linux and are tired of paid TV.

The Quicken article is from 2010 and so is the last VirtualBox Performance article. Both are still extremely popular articles. I wish more people used KVM than VirtualBox. It is a better solution for servers – by far.

Blog Growth

Our little blog has really grown since it was first brought on-line in August 2006. Before that time, I had been writing my notes into a tiddlywiki file before outgrowing it.

About 17K pages are viewed by different people monthly here and over 1M pages per year with non-unique visitors. Not many hits for a commercial website, but just right for this blog. Thanks.

Older Articles

Anyway, we are happy you’ve decided to stop by. Enjoy. You may find some interesting articles here if you look into the archives. Accessing older articles is easy … just use URLs like blog.jdpfu.com/yyyy/mm/

An article that I refer to myself is about the dangers of web-based system administrative tools.

Another article on Reducing IT License Costs over 50% also isn’t as popular as I would like. With the release of Samba4 from Beta, we don’t even need to have Microsoft for ActiveDirectory anymore. Start with small F/LOSS deployments that have been proven, gain experience, and slowly switch more and more of your infrastructure over. Every replacement will save upfront, license and maintenance costs. I’m 100% serious folks. Only keep proprietary software were it is absolutely required – it definitely has a critical place in businesses. Heck, even my businesses use proprietary software and we happily pay the license+maintenance costs. But we don’t use it were it isn’t required.

I’d think more of our readers would be interested in those types of articles. Oh well. After reading them, forward to your CxO for more consideration.

Here is us wishing you the best in 2013!