Author Archive
19 Nov 2014
Honesty starts with yourself
I wanted to share something that I feel is important to me. I feel that if you want to accomplish anything in life, you need to be honest more than most people are, and most of all, honest to yourself. If you can’t even be honest with yourself about what you’re good at, not good
26 Aug 2014
How video games taught me to run a business
Many of you enjoy video games, which are seen by some as a kind of guilty pleasure, good as entertainment, but not worthwhile aside from that. I’m the first to admit that spending hundreds of hours playing games will often get in the way of more productive pursuits. Nevertheless, there can be a positive side
26 Dec 2013
Destroy “Small business disease”
I’d like to talk to you today about an insidious problem that afflicts most self employed and entrepreneurial people. I call it “small business disease”. Let’s say you start a business, and you end up with a working business model. You have a repeatable marketing and production process, and people are buying what you have
04 Jun 2013
Update: Hardware vs Software RAID: The great debate.
Hi Everyone, If you recall our previous article Hardware raid or software raid? Our take on the great religious debate, we made the case that hardware raid served virtually no purpose, and software raid was better in all important ways. Although we still find most of the information in that article to be true, we are
30 Aug 2012
How to Edit Ram Allocation on a Xen VPS under Solusvm When SolusVM Won’t Update Configuration File
Hi Everyone, If you’re like me, you’ve had problems in the past with SolusVM running Xen, and some of them can be a little irritating and difficult to track down. There’s one particularly confusing problem whose solution I would like to share with you today. Who is affected? Anyone who wants to change the amount
11 Aug 2012
Hosting Best Practices Part 1: Server Cancellations
It’s 3am, and you get woken up by a flood of calls from angry customers. You stumble over to the computer to see what’s going on, and sure enough, you can’t reach your server. You send your hosting company a trouble ticket, thinking the server must have crashed again, a nuisance, but no big deal,
24 Jul 2012
Where’s my affiliate commission?
Every now and again, I get asked about setting up an affiliate system. Usually this makes sense on paper, after all, the people who ask me for this genuinely like our services and want to spread the word. This makes it especially difficult to explain that we don’t offer this, and in fact, that we
28 Jun 2012
Hardware raid or software raid? Our take on the great religious debate
I get asked this question a lot: “Do I need hardware raid, or is software raid good enough?” You may have noticed I/O FLOOD only offers software raid, so it will come as no surprise to you that we think software raid is “good enough”. What might surprise you however, is that we believe that
29 Mar 2012
Who is I/O FLOOD?
Hi, Gabriel Ramuglia here, President of I/O FLOOD, signing on for our first company blog post. I think it’s appropriate for our first post to help you get to know us, why we do what we do, who we are. In fact, that’s one of the two main purposes of this blog. Job one is to