Early this week one of my plugins had an upgrade available but when I clicked to upgrade automatically I received the following: Error 500 – Internal Server Error.  Didn’t give it much thought and tried to log into this site last night and after entering my credentials received the same error: now it was serious.
Searching for the error uncovered one possible fix indicating PHP is running out of memory.  To increase on an ISP that doesn’t give direct access to PHP is to create a PHP.INI file with this line …

I’ve gushed extensively about the wonder that is Windows Home Server.  I recently gave Windows Small Business Server 2008 a spin to check it’s backup handling but it left me wanting: no current Windows platform backup program gets as much done at such a low cost as Windows Home Server.
For the small business backup is key.  You probably have file sharing set up on your local file server and nightly backups of that data, most likely to a removable hard drive or NAS device.  You may even have a dedicated …

I signed up for the Microsoft Windows Home Server beta program early in the year and have been impressed and completely satisfied with the product. The final release came out a while ago, but my Microsoft PR contact never came through with a copy so I picked it up at NCIX.com for $153 CDN and upgraded my RTM (release to manufacturing) copy this past weekend.
For those not in the know, Microsoft Windows Home Server (WHS from now on) is just that: a small server operating system designed for the home. …

Escalade® 8506 Series

Supports up to 12 drives with a single PCI card enabling up to 3terabytes of storage (dependent on drive capacity , 2TB per array maximum)
Supports ATA / 133 / 100 drives with a Parallel-to-Serial Drive Converter
StorSwitch point-to-point non-blocking architecture
PCI 2.2 compliant 64-bit / 66MHz bus master
RAID 0, 1, 10, 5 and JBOD support (2-port cotrollers support RAID 0,1 and JBOD)
On-board processor to provide true hardware-based RAID
Bootable array support for greater fault tolerance
BIOS set up utility and 3ware Disk Manager (3DM) web-based management software
Hot-swap and hot-spare capability
Windows® and Linux® …