Amar Vyas

The blog post discusses various Content Delivery Networks I have used for my websites since 2019. These include CDNs  for Images, Video, Scripts, Documents, and Audio. I summarize insights and experiences with each CDN, highlighting their features and benefits. The article aims to help readers make informed decisions when selecting a CDN for their content delivery needs. Specifically, I will cover CDNs that are catered to small and medium businesses, as well as a few lesser-known CDNs that have proved to be reliable and cost-effective.

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The Bandwidth Alliance, led by Cloudflare, is an innovative consortium of cloud and networking companies dedicated to minimizing data transfer costs. It is very easy to use Bandwidth Alliance to reduce costs. Cloudflare has partnered with various cloud storage providers like Backblaze and Scaleway, both members of the Alliance, making data transfer between them either free or significantly reduced.

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In this post, I explore the minimalist yet robust publishing tool, Telegra.ph, created by Telegram. This blog post outlines the core features of Telegra.ph, including anonymous posting, text formatting options, and post-editing via a Telegram bot. Despite its simple interface, Telegra.ph supports rich-formatted posts inclusive of images, videos, and other embedded content. You might want to add telegra.ph to your list of publishing tools, if you are looking to combine simplicity with power.
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In this post, I have compiled a list of different S3 compatible storage providers. While preparing this list, I took a trip down memory lane with my earlier experience using AWS S3 in 2019. One of the triggers for this post was my recent interest in Backblaze B2. I am considering this service for storing the images for this blog. This post was updated in March 2024

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Learn about some Atom editor forks which came up the sunsetting (discontinuation) of Atom by GitHub. We also get introduced to some alternatives to Atom in this blog post. The significance of community-driven forks is underscored in this post.

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In order to ensure good health of the computer system, disk monitoring plays an important role. This practice enables the observation of disk usage patterns, thus facilitating the identification and prevention of potential failures. Within the Linux ecosystem, built-in and third-party options, can be used for efficient and effective disk monitoring. In this post, we will explore the smartmontools utility, and how it can ensure the continued good health of your disk.

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In this post, we will explore the Pastebin and alternatives to this most popular and widely used platform for sharing code snippets, writing notes, or log files. It’s lightweight, fast, and easy to use – perfect for quickly sharing snippets of code or text online with others. However, if you do need extra security features, then there are plenty of alternative services out there.In this blog post, we will follow the history of text and code sharing, compare it with Note sharing sites, and explore some of the alternatives to Pastebin.

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This post is titled the Rise of AI Writing Apps- 2024 Edition for a reason. In February 2021, I published on Medium a post titled, “The Rise of AI Writing Tools”. In that post, I asked the fundamental question: “Are these AI writing and content tools here to stay?” This post was updated on 24 Feb 2024. (more…)

For a significant period, this blog functioned under the care of Bludit CMS. However, as of yesterday, I’ve decided to transition my site to ClassicPress. Despite Bludit’s limitations and minor quirks, it served me well, offering a satisfactory experience for the most part.

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WordPress themes on ClassicPress were a hit or miss in October 2020 when I wrote this draft originally. This post is companion post to “Which plugins from WordPress work well with ClassicPress?” Since I had written a post on the plugins, it made logical sense to write a separate blog post on themes. I largely tested with versions 1.3 and 1.2 of ClassicPress, which were the most recently released versions around that period. In addition to some popular themes, I found nearly twelve themes ranging from a simple blog to themes that showcase portfolio to work without many hiccups.

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