Archive for the ‘Web Infrastructure’ Category

How to Share Files — Part 3: Collaboration Tools

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You need to share files. Whether it’s with friends, clients, part­ners, or cowork­ers, there’s some file you need them to see, and vice-versa.

My last two posts drew a dis­tinc­tion between whether you’re file-sharing for pub­li­ca­tion or for col­lab­o­ra­tion (How to Share Files — Part 1: Overview), and then explored some options for the publication-based options (How to Share Files — Part 2: Pub­li­ca­tion Tools).  Read more » 

How to Share Files — Part 2: Publication Tools

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In last week’s post, How to Share Files — Part 1: Overview, I drew a dis­tinc­tion between publication-based online file-sharing and collaboration-based online file-sharing.  Read more » 

How to Share Files — Part 1: Overview

Sharing Tastes Good (Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryanr/142455033)

Over the last few months I’ve answered a lot of ques­tions about online file-sharing.

Should I upload my files to my own web­site or put them on a file-sharing service?”

How can I make a PDF avail­able on my blog?”

What about sites like Google Docs and Zoho?”  Read more » 

How to Decide Which RSS Feeds to Follow

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RSS is a great way to eas­ily fol­low a lot of web­sites. But even­tu­ally even the con­ve­nience of feeds can get over­whelm­ing.  Read more » 

Migrating Your Domain to a New Web Host

Your initial setup: you have one web host and all of the world's DNSs are pointing at it.

Web host migra­tion is like sky­div­ing: you know there’ll be a lot of adren­a­lin, and you hope there won’t be a loud thud at the end.

I’ve migrated a few domains recently for myself and oth­ers. So far, no thuds. Here’s the process I used.
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Choosing a Web Host

I’m con­sult­ing with three groups that are con­sid­er­ing a change in their web hosts. Since my own host has made me a lit­tle grumpy lately I’ve decided to move some of my domains to a new host. I have some expe­ri­ence at this (I’ve been through at least five hosts by now), but it’s been a few years since I last switched and I’d like to prac­tice on myself—practice not just at mov­ing hosts, but at pick­ing them.  Read more »