HostingThe night before I left to travel for the holidays, I was very excited to receive my beta invite for Liquidweb’s new cloud hosting platform, Storm on Demand. I have been in the beta invite queue since Liquidweb first announced this new venture. To say the least, my excitement…
I’ve been debating back and forth for a while, weighing the pros and cons for a shared host vs. doing things myself. On one hand a shared host all the software and firewalls, etc are taken care of…
Previously, I was backing up my websites password-less ssh and rsync, but I have decided to change that for a couple of reasons such as passwordless ssh can have its security problems, and I dont trust hardware. Using S3 I can securely keep as many full backups…
Shared hosts are a great way to get started on the web whether you want to make a blog, start a forum, or you want to start developing your own applications, and did I mention shared hosting can be really cheap?…
A couple of weeks ago I setup iptables on my Slicehost VPS. After a few days of watching it I was suprised at how many connections were being denied. This machine has only been public for a couple days or so and I only had…
VPS hosting done right that is.
I am some-what hard to please, especially when it comes to hosting and technology in general. I hold web hosting companies to standards I would expect myself to meet if I were in their shoes. I dont want unexpected outages, unexplained server performance, random…
Amazon EC2 just rolled out a new sudo pre-payment plans for all its instance sizes. With this new plan you pay a flat up front fee for a one or three year term. In exchange for this pre-payment you receive discounted per-hour price. A lot of people are using…
A couple months back I signed up for the GoDadddy Grid Host beta. It was too great of a deal to pass up, 5$/mo with 100gb of space and 1TB of bandwidth (basically what MediaTemple gives you).
Ever wonder who owns/hosts some of the most popular blogs? Well I put together a list for you incase you are wondering. This list is taken from Technorati’s top 100 blogs page and I used whoishostingthis.com to find out who is hosting a particular blog.
The…
I am always shopping around for new cool online services and hosting. Yesterday I was looking at Godaddy (because Diggnation drills Godaddy into my brain) and I saw that they are offering a new grid hosting plan. I am kind of anal about website up…
