A developer's Blog

the ramblings of an old programmer

I first bought a domain name in 1995, and hosted our company's new web site on a Windows-NT server in our office using our expensive and slow dedicated DSL internet connection. My business partner thought it was a waste of time and money, and he was probably correct. At the time, the tone of the i...

For those not familiar, a mainframe is just a large server. Older applications need to run on one of a small number of proprietary operating systems, but on most mainframes you can also install UNIX or Linux. If you want to create a lot of virtual Linux servers for your cloud environment, the best...