Ninth Division [9D]

When the story hit the front page, I was receiving such an amount of requests for this article I couldn’t even keep the server going. It is running as a virtual machine and at many points the server peaked above 80.00 on it’s load average. It was so high that the host server shut it down countless times. This comes to hard lesson #1… CACHE! Now this site (not surprisingly) is ran using Wordpress. Luckily that means there are tons of great caching plugins. Use one! I had reminded myself about three times to do that in September and October, but found excuses not to. It’s simple and it saved my site.

Every business name has a story.  No matter how complicated or simple the name of the business or product, it has a story.  Many folks over the last year have asked: “What does Ninth Division mean?”  This last week on Wednesday was Veterans Day and it felt like the perfect opportunity to tell the story. [...]