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actionhero js framework for http, websocket, and tcp; The Reusable, Scalable, and Quick node.js API Server

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I'm a HUGE fan of High Scalability, if you work in IT you should like it too

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This Site/Blog

This site is supposed to be my own website; as in some sort of portfolio website and technical blog rolled into one. I did have to debate a little with myself though as to whether to try and develop my own site from scratch (using something like Django or maybe even using a new framework that I've not used before so as to learn something in the process) or use something pre-built and highly customisable such as Wordpress but I realised something important after a while; I'm very lazy.

Well, not just the normal kind of lazy; I'm sort of a dreamer when it comes to computers. I have these fanciful ideas about new technologies and projects, and interesting and creative thoughts about how I could make the website aesthetically pleasing yet rather kooky yet they usually all end up dead in the "cyber-gutter".

Rolling with something like tumblr and having a custom URL (which I'm pretty sure I've sorted out, but I've not yet figured out how to point the non-www version here) seems adequate enough.

The best part about something like this is that you pay zero hosting fees; I was previously hosting my website on linode (good service; no complaints there) but it just felt like overkill. I almost re-rolled with EC2 or another private VPS service - Hetzner, they are a German hosting company that offer incredible value for money, and from what I've heard are very reliable - but once again they were overkill for a site such as this. Also, I've read a few interesting posts about how tumblr scale their architecture1 so no worries there.

So, tumblr, hopefully I am here to stay for a while; or at least until I find something new and shiny.

1. http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/2/13/tumblr-architecture-15-billion-page-views-a-month-and-harder.html

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