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Installing Trax LRS on DigitalOcean

Trax is a no-frills learning record store (LRS) designed for gathering and storing xAPI data. It’s open-source and a great way to dip your toes into the world of the Experience API. I wanted to take Trax for a spin, so I installed it on a DigitalOcean droplet. My

From MacStadium to DigitalOcean and SpinupWP

In 2009, I started hosting this site on a Mac Mini colocated at MacMiniColo/MacStadium. While I had some experience with shared hosting (think cpanel and MediaTemple), most of my server experience at that point was with Microsoft IIS systems, which are largely GUI-based. I wasn’t familiar with Linux

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