Comments on: Running a website or blog on a USB flash drive

By: Treadmills

Treadmills — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:38:31 +0000

Very creative. I’ve never even thought of doing this. I’m going to give this a try. I’ll let you know how it turns out. Thanks!

By: DarrinW

DarrinW — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:36:12 +0000

@ La Fullerton

Thanks for the extra tips.

By: La Fullerton

La Fullerton — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:53:31 +0000

This cool approach can be made cooler. Create a folder on usb drive. Share that folder with full permissions. Map that folder as R (or some other available letter) drive. Unzip Xmapp zip file into this R drive. Run your web site from within this R drive. Later on suppose you want to run the web site from hard drive. Just copy the usb’s shared folder onto hard drive. Re-map R drive to the hard drive’s folder. By using this sharing and mapping, you can toggle between usb drive and hard drive or whatever.

By: Lincoln Ne Restaurant Delivery

Lincoln Ne Restaurant Delivery — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:29:41 +0000

Yeah….this does do some handy things. There are some cons…a flash drive is a little slower than say…a 15k Serial SCSI drive. And of course if have a decent server…you can cache the whole site to memory in just a few seconds. Then you just write your changes…guess it depends on how much traffic you are getting. But for demo for a new web client…can not beat a flash drive. Slap it in PC…show them their potential new site! But for the love off all that is good…BACKUP YOUR FLASH DRIVE! Can not count how many times I have had someone bring me a broken flash drive wanting to get the data off the silly thing.

By: elvis2

elvis2 — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:01:47 +0000

It won’t be long that web servers will be on mobile devices, once the mobile networks could support massive traffic.

By: Matty

Matty — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:24:01 +0000

Awesome!Much thanks,I’ll have a try.