First there was Blogger, then there was shared hosting, then “turbo hosting”, then a VPS, then a bigger VPS, then an even bigger VPS, and now we have a new system. Over the past few months, it’s been a tough job keeping the performance of RefuGeeks to a reasonable level. Tweaks, Changes, And Caching Most visitors probably won’t have noticed a significant reduction in the ... »
RefuGeeks is growing, and growing, and growing. We have a loyal following on all of our social networks, as well as on the site itself either by normal visits, or via RSS syndication. At the moment the whole she-bang is run by myself so I really could do with some help around the place. Interested? We’re hiring… As usual we’re always on the lookout for great talented people to ... »
Life’s hard at the moment, there’s a worldwide economic crisis and things are tough for us all. But unfortunately we all need to keep paying the bills, and the bills for RefuGeeks are getting bigger and bigger. Anyone who has read our about page will know that RefuGeeks is run by myself, along with a handful of regular and guest authors. RefuGeeks is getting bigger month by month, and ... »
Today is the first anniversary of our launch as RefuGeeks. We started life around two and half years ago as a free blog on blogger. But back then we were known as Jingi Blog (crap name we know). So when we outgrew Blogger and went self-hosted, we re-branded to RefuGeeks. In that year it’s been a bit of a whirlwind, we’ve gone from strength to strength and have subsequently outgrown ... »
A couple of weeks ago we talked about how RefuGeeks is going onwards and upwards, moving from a free blog hosted on Blogger, to what it is now having outgrown a number of hosts. We took the decision to migrate RefuGeeks from our old host, to a new, more powerful hosting platform on the popular Bluehost server. But unfortunately we still had problems with Bluehost and have had to move again. This... »
In May, RefuGeeks will be a year old, and what a years it’s been! Thanks to you guys and your amazing support, we have gone from strength to strength and we’re getting stronger every day. What’s next? Well, I started out running my blog back in 2011 on Blogger. Back then it was called Jingi Blog and it was just a bit of fun. Soon enough I completely out grew Blogger and moved to ... »
After our recent announcement that we would be changing the look of RefuGeeks, today the new look has gone live. I’m sure you can imagine that there is a hell of a lot of work involved in re-designing a website so you will probably still see some remnants of the old colours lying around the site for the next few days. Don’t worry though, we will find and replace them all. What do you g... »
Over the next few days we’re going to be going through some significant design changes. We love our Ubuntu Purple and Orange roots but since we post on everything from the tech world, not just Ubuntu we thought it was time for a change. The colour scheme we have opted for in the new look is Blue & Grey to replace our Orange & Purple colours. We are also changing some of the fonts to ... »