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I’ve always been an advocate of investing in faster hard drives. Typically, when someone is looking for a new laptop and starts talking about how they want a faster processor or more RAM or whatever, I’m the first person to say that they should go for the 7200 hard drive upgrades if available because few things will result in as noticeable an increase in speed as upgrading the system’s biggest bottleneck. All my HD’s on my home computer are 10k and I’d never go back. But I never had a chance to look at a system with a solid state drive until now.

And good God, the difference is profound! Everything the system does, it does noticeably faster. Of course it boots much faster, installs applications and updates faster, and shuts down faster. But even innocuous, not terribly demanding things like opening the control panel or launching Internet Explorer… they feel almost instantaneous.

If you’re looking for a new laptop anytime soon and you take speed very seriously, save on the processor and get a SSD drive. You won’t regret it.

Not really business but I am doing some volunteer SEO work so should have something interesting to share on occasion.

If you noticed the downtime, my apologies. V7ninc is shutting down and the programmar I hired to transfer my sites to Lunarpages screwed this one up royally. Turns out Lunarpages and Movable Type (my previous blogging platform) don’t get along real well so we switched to Wordpress.

I have a fresh install ov Movable Type on my account - it’s the www.seo-search-engine-ranking.com addon domain. The files created by movable type should have 666 permissions but these are giving the site a 500 error. If I change the permissions to 644 than the 500 error goes away.

Is it impossible to host a Movable Type blog on lunarpages or is there a way we can make these 666 files display correctly?

And the answer:

At Lunarpages, our servers are setup to use suPHP to parse php pages as CGI instead of an Apache module. If you are running a PHP-based script on your site and are receiving a 500 and/or 404 errors on your pages, it is likely you have one or more of the following occurring: 1. The permissions on some of the folders or files are 777 or 666. If this is the case, change them to either 755 or 644

Somewhere in the screwup my old database disappeared so I’ll be using the waybackmachine to try to add the old posts back - this blog is 4 years old - hopefully it will look that way again!