How ServerPilot and CloudFlare improve DigitalOcean

I was a Dreamhost customer for more than a decade before discovering DigitalOcean in 2014. Both offer virtual private servers to host one or more websites, but DigitalOcean offers better performance via an all SSD back-end and better pricing. Dreamhost‘s shared hosting plans cost $9/month. While DigitalOcean virtual private servers (1 vCPU, 512MB vRAM, and …

amCharts is a good alternative to Where I’ve Been

In December 2013, the website www.whereivebeen.com discontinued its service. It offered a means of creating a map of all of the places you’ve been. The good folks at amCharts offer a good alternative to Where I’ve Been. Use their website to select the states or countries you’ve visited, and they will provide you the JavaScript …

ScoreVivo.com redesign

I’m pleased to announce the redesign of ScoreVivo.com, the sheet music publishing business my mom and I started in August 2011. The site has grown to 135 downloadable sheet music arrangements (mostly for flute) from about 20 arrangers and composers. Backend Changes I ended up making a lot of changes to offer the performance, stability, …

ScoreVivo publishes its 100th arrangement

Less than two years ago, my mom and I began a sheet music website called ScoreVivo.com. Today, we published our 100th sheet music arrangement or original composition. It all began when one of my mom’s traditional publishers was going out of business. When I learned that she could not simply choose another publisher (because she …