BigDinosaur

A long time ago in late February 2001, on the 18th floor of Three Greenway Plaza in the sweaty bayou city of Houston, a frustrated Tier II desktop support technician copied and saved a bunch of screenshots of the worst helpdesk tickets he’d ever seen.

This blog uses GeneratePress for its theme, and I’ve been very happy with it for many years.

After flirting with the idea for a month or two, I’ve switched Bigdinosaur.org (and the sites I’m hosting) over to a t4g.medium EC2 instance, which means we’ve finally left the universe of x86 and x86-64 behind—at least, for the hosting stack.

After having absolutely no end of unexpected performance issues over on Space City Weather during the Houston “deep freeze” event of 2023, it seems likely that the core problem comes down to OpenLiteSpeed (or its PHP implementation) being unable to handle…

I described in a previous post the 2022 changes in the BigDino web stack, with the biggest change being that we’re now using OpenLiteSpeed (“OLS”) as our web server application.

Over the past month or so, my Valve Index has been registering an annoying amount of tilt—when I put it on and start up SteamVR, the floor in VR-land is about five degrees out-of-whack with the actual floor.

Nginx and I have a long history.

So, hey, it turns out that while the grass is indeed a little bit greener over here on this side of the blogging fence, Wordpress still does a couple of things I don’t like and that need correcting.

For all my bitching about Wordpress as my personal blogging platform, I don’t think I ever actually ended up using it.

It’s been some time since I’ve done a good ol’ infrastructure post, and the Bigdinosaur.org web stack has evolved a bit over the course of 2018.