A common question being considered by many people I’m talking to is “to what extent should we adopt public cloud services, and to what extent do we build ourselves?”. Cloud services exist on a spectrum from simple IaaS “provision of a virtualised instance” through Platform-as-a-Service offerings such as managed databases and API management platforms, all the way through to highly differentiated - and highly proprietary - Software-as-a-Service business applications.

When I started blogging a few years back, I did so at Tumblr. Although I don’t use my blog much, I am planning to publish the occasional article still, and it felt increasingly weird just being me and a bunch of teenagers on there.

Time for one of my rare blog posts - which I’ll follow up with another on a related topic …

Only just noticed that Cloudflare has a free CDN and that Dreamhost has easy support for it. Looks like a no-brainer. Looking forward to trying it out on the Close the Door website to speed up access for our mostly UK visitors (DH is in the US). Amazing what you can get for free nowadays … http://bit.ly/Htzucy