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A New Web Host – Linode

March 7, 2010
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Just before the New Years holiday I moved this site to a new web host, Linode. I’ve been with Slicehost for just over two years and don’t have any complaints and think they’re great. There’s an interesting thread on the Slicehost forum about how other vendors have matched and exceeded Slicehost’s offerings. In the thread [...]

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SquareSpace Considered

August 17, 2009

SquareSpace has been getting a lot of publicity in most tech podcasts I listen to. It had the feel of an orchestrated publicity campaign so I didn’t pay much attention to the hype and ignored it for awhile. But the thought of having a hosted website along with the ability to extensively customize the [...]

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BlueHost Customer Service

May 7, 2007

I had more first experience with BlueHost customer service over the weekend and it was an excellent experience. They’d recently been advertising “unlimited domains”. My control panel still showed the old limit of domains and when I tried to add a sixth I received and error that I’d reached the limit. So I opened [...]

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SiteUpTime – Web Site Monitoring

April 28, 2007

I came across SiteUpTime.com which does web site monitoring, as the name implies. They offer a free plan which I just signed up for to monitor The OS Quest.
The free plan includes:

1 Monitor
30 or 60 minute check intervals
4 Monitoring Locations
Email Alerts
Monthly Reports
Online Statistics
Control Panel
Web Server Monitoring (http)
Email Server Monitoring (pop3)
Email Server Monitoring (smtp)
FTP Server Monitoring [...]

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Bluehost Updates It Hosting Plan

April 17, 2007

Bluehost updated it’s hosting plan recently and now offers “more” for the same price. They now offer 300GB of disk space, 3,000GB of bandwidth and will now host unlimited domains.
Those are all nice numbers and I like Bluehost so far, but at what point do these numbers become so large they’re meaningless? While I’m sure [...]

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Success!!! Upgraded to Wordpress 2.1.2 on Yahoo Hosting

March 24, 2007

I finally got my Wordpress installation upgraded to Wordpress 2.1.2 from Wordpress 2.0.2.
I had installed Wordpress 2.0.2 through the Yahoo control panel. I’d been unable to successfully upgrade, just getting a blank page when running upgrade.php. I’d followed all the instructions from Wordpress for the upgrade. I’d assumed it was related to Yahoo restricting .htacess [...]

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