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I have a full-time web development job, and can no longer offer per-project services.

Decades of experience developing and hosting websites, from small local sites with only a few html pages, to high-traffic sites with thousands of users and pages. 

I’ve been building websites since the early days of the world wide web. I know where it came from, and where it’s going. I can handle any level of website from a single page to a fully secure online business system. My clients include educational institutions, small businesses, manufacturers, non-profit organizations and developers in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

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Tuning Apache and MySQL for Best Performance in a Shared Virtual Hosting Environment

By on August 22, 2011 in Consulting, Web Server Performance Tuning

Web hosting has changed dramatically in the last few years. The majority of accounts are now running PHP scripts and MySQL, whereas in the past most accounts were only serving static HTML files. This presents challenges in security as well as performance tuning. It is impossible to predict whether a certain configuration will work properly […]

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APC Cache Considerations for Virtual Hosting Environments

By on August 22, 2011 in Consulting, Virtualmin, Web Server Performance Tuning, Wordpress

APC cache does not work well in a virtual hosting environment unless PHP is running as FCGID, and every individual virtual host has a unique PHP.ini and a unique fcgiwrapper. This is not the case with many virtual hosting environments because the memory and CPU requirements are too great. I suggest using Virtualmin for a […]

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Cpanel Mailman mailing lists: cannot manage lists after migrating to new host

By on July 19, 2011 in Cpanel, Mailman, Wordpress

We recently migrated 2 Cpanel servers to VPS. Most things migrated properly and without incident. However, Mailman mailing lists were the exception. Mailing lists appear to have migrated properly, as they show up under WHM and Cpanel and usr/local/ … /list_lists However, when cpanel user clicks Manage link, the following message appears: cpanel1.hosting.com mailing lists […]

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Recursive chmod Tricks

By on July 5, 2011 in Wordpress

Recursively chmod only directories find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; Similarly, recursively set the execute bit on every directory chmod -R a+X * The +X flag sets the execute bit on directories only See note from commenter, below, about effect on files ↓ Recursively chmod only files find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; Recursively chmod only PHP files (with extension .php) find . -type f -name ‘*.php’ -exec chmod 644 {} \;

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How to Configure APC Cache on Virtual Servers with PHP running under FCGId

By on November 8, 2010 in Virtualmin, Web Server Performance Tuning, Wordpress

My Virtualmin Amazon Linux Server runs several virtual domains with PHP under FCGId using APC for opcode caching: Joomla, PHPbb, WordPress, etc . APC is somewhat challenging to configure properly with fcgid-enabled virtual domains, but it is quite helpful to optimize system resources and prevent traffic surges on one site from affecting overall server performance. Joomla […]

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Social Media — Facebook, Twitter, Blogging and Sharing

By on December 3, 2009 in Content Management Systems, Wordpress

Social media, including sites like Facebook and MySpace, micro-blogging platforms like Twitter, and sharing/bookmarking tools like Digg, Del.icio.us and Stumble Upon are all very important to your outreach to customers, not to mention the incoming links they provide, and the potential of exponential viral traffic. Add to this the need for regular blogging (on your […]

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Zero Sum Website

Art Competition with Submission Form

By on September 12, 2009 in Arts and Nonprofit, Portfolio, Wordpress

This is a project for Create Here, a Chattanooga think tank nonprofit that connects entrepreneurs and artists with creative communicators to promote sustainable, creative initiatives and showcases. Zero Sum is an exhibit that examines the role of games in contemporary culture and the impact they have on our social experience, psyche, morality and approach to […]

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Regional Visioning Plan

By on September 12, 2009 in Content Management Systems, Portfolio

This site, completed for Chattanooga’s Create Here, in tandem with design firm Widgets & Stone, is for a regional visioning process being conducted around Chattanooga, Tennessee. Tell-a-friend and Volunteer forms Semantic, search engine and handheld browser friendly design Google Analytics to track page views, form submissions, pdf and  file downloads Expression Engine multi-site manager custom […]

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AJC Media Solutions website

Content Management Consulting

By on February 25, 2009 in Content Management Systems, Portfolio

I was contracted to develop the content management system for the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s AJC Media Solutions site. I took a great design from IQ Interactive, created Joomla 1.5 templates, and structured the site so IQ and AJC staffers could easily add content, including an extensive collection of Flash movies and PDF whitepapers. (more…)

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Chamber of Commerce Website

By on December 1, 2008 in Chambers of Commerce, Joomla, Portfolio

This website for Cleveland Tennessee’s Chamber of Commerce features: Community calendar used by many organizations to publicize their events Flash slideshow Dropdown and contextual menu system to make navigation of the site very intuitive for the site’s many business, organization and individual users Detailed contact forms for ordering printed materials The site is maintained by […]

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