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I am looking for a decent place to host a web site or two. The plan is to post information the certain folks (you know who) might not like. No, I’m not talking porn in any form. Let’s put it this way: We don’t want this site to get ‘parlered’ if you know what we mean. It’s just a host that will be scalable. For the nerd/geeks out there, I am looking to install a LAMP stack for Wordpress with a CRUD backend attachment. Does anyone have any ideas?

This past week Amazon Web Services (AWS) shut down Twitter competitor, Parler, because AWS didn’t like Parler’s policy of providing for free speech. Meanwhile AWS is again petitioning to run the Pentagon’s Defense System.We reported in July that Amazon banned censorship documentary “Killing Free Speech”:Ironically Proving the Point – Amazon Bans Censorship Documentary “Killing Free Speech” – Democrats Shut It Down on Capitol HillThen we saw last week that Amazon Web Services (AWS) kicked Parler off its web servers, shutting the platform down:BREAKING: Amazon Kicks Parler Off Web Server — Shuts Platform Down Until They Find New HostThis same company,...

“Cloud computing” has easily replaced “Web 2.0” as the current trendy buzzword. The state of California is even turning to it for government systems. I have to say, however, that I have serious reservations about heavily implementing cloud computing in my own work flow. I believe that cloud computing is the killer app of the future, but the future isn’t quite here yet. Don’t get me wrong. I do make limited use of cloud computing applications, especially Gmail. But mostly, I don’t feel comfortable putting my entire computing life “in the cloud”. Here’s why. -- Access. Putting all my data...

Sun Backs Rival's Web Services Security Effort By Richard Karpinski Microsoft, IBM, and Verisign this week submitted their Web Services Security (WS-Security) specification to the OASIS standards body and picked up a new friend along the way -- Sun Microsystems. The jockeying over Web services standards has grown to a frenzied pace. By moving WS-Security over to OASIS, which is the home for many key Web services standards, IBM and Microsoft were able to convince Sun -- and a slew of other companies -- to back the security effort. WS-Security aims to specify how to secure Web services -- including...