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Dreamhost is only a dollar more per year, and includes privacy guard as a base-level feature (which costs $1/year on GoDaddy), so they're arguably the same price.

Rob

I'm not buying it. Maybe the promotional $19.95 rates are below cost, but $50/mo isn't. If you look at independent broadband providers, they charge ~$50/mo, and they don't have the cash reserves nor the alternative revenue streams that the bigger companies have to allow them to take a loss on service.

The reality is that the consumer broadband market is like many other markets...they oversell their product with the knowledge that most customers will use far less bandwidth than they pay for. Sure, most people reading this are part of the group that's constantly bittorrenting the latest Ubuntu ISO or some other such bandwidth-intensive activity, but there's enough people (think of your parents, grandparents and all those people who you provide begrudging tech support to) out there that only use a few megs a day, but want those few megs to come down faster than dial-up.

Airlines oversell flights knowing that it'll be cheaper to give out free flight vouchers when everyone shows up rather than let seats go empty. Your local police and fire departments don't have nearly the staff to deal with everyone's problems at once. Even webhosting companies offer insane amounts of bandwidth/storage knowing that only a small percentage of customers will use it. My host offers 1TB/mo with 20 GB storage for only $7.95/mo (PLUG!). Those numbers don't come close to adding up, yet I know they're making money.

The money to support this is already being paid. The only reason this is happening is that the telcos will be damned if they let Vonage/Skype eat their lunch over connections they have some measure of control over. Data-only connections are the future, and the bells are finally wising up to this fact and trying to figure out how to maintain their monopoly profits on voice lines in a world where competitors don't have to physically connect with their customers. Prioritized traffic is the obvious answer since it leverages the physical connection to the user against the VoIP providers who they're competing with.

Gallery2 is heavily worked on and it's always been a joy to use.

Sounds like an excellent opportunity for a Wiki. Just host it yourself or buy a web-hosting service contract (try Dreamhost, note that is a referral link) and then everyone can easily edit and upload and such without having to know tons of technology.

Dreamhost are actually very forward about their CPU situation:

http://blog.dreamhost.com/2006/05/18/the-truth-abo ut-overselling/
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/CPU_Minutes_FA Q

I hope that helps. Ive been using Dreamhost for several moderately high bandwidth sites over the past year and I have no complaints at all, infact I enjoy their 'professionally unprofessional' stance (re the newsletter).

Dreamhost are actually very forward about their CPU situation:

http://blog.dreamhost.com/2006/05/18/the-truth-abo ut-overselling/
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/CPU_Minutes_FA Q

I hope that helps. Ive been using Dreamhost for several moderately high bandwidth sites over the past year and I have no complaints at all, infact I enjoy their 'professionally unprofessional' stance (re the newsletter).

Then I saw dreamhost (link takes $7 off your first bill) in an ask slashdot and we couldnt be happier. $7 a month gets me WAY more stuff than $25 got with CI Host as well as some great (and good humored, if you ever take the time to read some of their postings or newsletters) support.

They offer great packages and they just keep getting better (without the price going up). If you sign up from this link or use the code 7BACKNOW, you will get $7 back which is basically your first month of:
-20gb storage/1TB transfer
-POP/IMAP/PHP/Mysql
-a whole bunch of other goodies from a team that is really "geek friendly" with their support and service style (even a jabber server if you want).

No offence, I just dont see why you would need to weed out the dishonest hosts when you can just go straight to the good hosts.

http://dreamhost.com/

Link if you are interested (it's an affiliate): Dreamhost

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rail s.html
Hard to find a Rails developer who hasn't made The Cookbook.

Also, for test deployment - HostingRails.com is giving away free Rails hosting at the moment. But for large apps I'd recommend DreamHost (w/ promo code X50) or Site5 if apache/mysql is your gig, or TextDrive if you're down with LightTpd/PostgreSQL.

It seems their hosting provider's wiki got the Willy on Wheels treatment. http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Special:Recent changes

Absolute - no. I can open Internet Explorer and make sure my sites look right. Beside that I couldn't tell you what to do.

I'm really shocked that folks like you find it staggeringly impossible that I know what I'm doing and have a good head on my shoulders and don't know much about Windows.

I build web apps. I need a development machine (OS X) and a server (OS X). I know how they work, and I could take either one apart as much as I need to. I can even get around my DreamHost account just fine without a good knowledge of Windows. I need to test on IE from time to time, but that is it.

I guess I'm what you might call a specialist. I know what I do quite well, and over the last 10+ years it has NEVER been important or necessary for me to use or learn much about Windows. It has never got in the way of my career or getting a job - it has never been a "BAD THING". Your logic is no good.

I'm sure I'm an anomoly. It's by choice. Me and my little Apple-shaped world are doin just fine.

-A

They still don't explain WHOSE idea the Ping attribute was, or offer a compelling reason for its inclusion, particularly as it is something you can already do with onclick, as I mentioned here

The "ping" attribute was proposed by Ian Hickson on 21 October of last year, as a quick search in the WHAT-WG mailing-list archive would have shown if you'd bothered.

In his posting, Ian explaings the reasoning behind the attribute. You can do it with onclick, but then again you could manually write out every page of a dynamic website instead of using a CMS to automate the process.

--Robert

And your affiliation with DreamHost is ?????????

Nothing other than they're a great webhost at a great price. Check out DreamHost's reviews.

They're not the best that money can buy in terms of uptime or probably anything, but I do get pretty good uptime, support, SSL, unlimited domains hosted (inc. ftp/shell), user groups, Python Perl Ruby and PHP (inc. PHP as CGI) scripting, MySQL (wish they has Postgres), 20GB storage, 1TB monthly bandwidth, webmail for a shed load of users, SSL server, thi list goes on.

I get this for $9.95/month, and it is available for $7.95/month if paid in advance. Best of all, any new features of promotions that get offered to new customers get given to existing customers, automatically. So I have no qualms at promoting DreamHost, and they give a kickback based on my recommendation too!

Scouring the net to try to learn what I could about their throttling practices, I found the following site: "An Analysis of Netflix's DVD Allocation System"

http://dvd-rent-test.dreamhost.com/

It contains, by far the best information I could find regarding throttling. It includes enough data to actually draw reasonable conclusions about some of the thresholds that netlflix uses for limiting rentals. It has allowed my to adjust my use to almost always get sent new releases.

Dreamhost is offering Subversion now on their hosting plans. I haven't tried it out yet but they've been excellent with hosting my Web sites.

I will no longer support that or any future version of Firefox unless this is removed completely and a privacy statement is issued where they pledge to protect the users security and privacy. I will not allow my systems to be upgraded and will not recommend my company consider it. I will actively work against them.

Whoa, there cowboy. Come down off your high horse for a second so I can bludgeon you with facts:

• The "ping" attribute is on the standardization track of an independent industry standards body.
• The reasoning behind it is that this is something that's already done by pretty much anybody anywhere who serves advertising or does user research, and that standardizing in this form has a few advantages:
  • It does away with the need to obfuscate link targets by pointing to redirect scripts which do tracking -- instead of linking to Yahoo by going through "redirect.php?site=242353987", you can have the link's href attribute be Yahoo and add a "ping" attribute to hit your tracker.
  • It does away with the need, in many cases, to use JavaScript and/or cookies for link-tracking purposes.
  • It's semantically much cleaner.
  • It allows users to easily see links which will ping a tracker, either by having the browser automatically identify them or by user stylesheets which highlight links with a "ping" attribute.
• It makes it easier to do a lot of things besides spying on people, as Ian Hickson pointed out in the original proposal of the attribute.

Would it be overkill for you to get a low-grade shared hosting plan that included email? If not, then you should take a look at DreamHost. Their cheapest plan is $8/mo and includes one domain name registration (1yr), 20GB of space, IMAP, webmail, and a bunch of other geek-friendly things that are pretty spiffy, but that might not be as relevant to your needs.

I do not work for DreamHost, but I have been a very happy customer of theirs for several years now. They've got stellar customer service and tech support, and they are constantly improving the feature set of their plans. For example, this month I got a notice that the disk space had been quadrupled and that all accounts now support custom DNS.

I use Dreamhost. For $8/mo you get 20 GB disk, which your mailbox comes out of. So if you don't use any web space, you get 20GB of mail. Additionally, they have a gmail-esque thing where they add 160MB/week (I started with 2GB one year ago). So far their service has been fantastic.

I third the (http://www.dreamhost.com/ ) Dreamhost recommendation.

CSoft.com was my previous host, where they a) converted from Linux to BSD without telling us, b) screwed up the upgrade to the new version of berkeley db, c) were supposedly running in "compatibility mode" (and claimed that it was fine, not a violation of their advertised linux servers.) Csoft rendered my blog useless (literally -- I couldn't log in to my own stuff).

Dreamhost was a welcome change. When we signed up we could host up to 15 full domains - now it's unlimited. Yes, they have glitches now and then, but they are always fixed promptly. They have nice mail options, lots of hosting extras, their customer service is good, and their web UI is actually usable, even by command line junkie admins like me.

As requested the name of the hosting company that ripped me off was Acenet. Stay away at all possible costs!

Today I'm using Dreamhost - I highly recommend them. To help ease your switch in I offer the promotional code bigmoney, which saves 90 dollars on yearly plans, and 40, 50, 70, and 90 dollars respectivley on every tier of the monthly plans.

Cheers,
Tim

I switched to Dreamhost who have been absolutely great at only about $7 a month for a ton of services/bandwidth/storage. If you sign up with this link (or use the promo code 7BACKNOW) you get $7 off...so basically your first month free. There may be better deals but for 20GB storage and a TB of bandwidth, its not so bad at all.

It won't surprise me if other people here experienced bad service from CyberPixels. Basically, Christmas 2004, our site suddenly went down, no explanation. It had happened before, usually not for long, so I wrote it off to experience. An hour later when I next tried it, however, it was still down. I spent some time refreshing the page and trying to ping the server, got nothing, and no FTP access either. I checked out the CyberPixels site and got nothing. "Ah well", I thought. "They're probably aware of it and fixing it now." How wrong I was. When it got to the next day and it still wasn't back, I logged onto the CyberPixels forum and found I was not the only one. It seemed _everyone_ hosted by CP had gone down, and they were pissed. From reading around in the forum, net gossip got back to us and it seemed that the owner, Rebecca, had fired the two main support staffers (people got this info from livejournals, blogs and forums) and was currently away skiing for the Christmas holidays. Most people defended her about this, saying of course she wouldn't just leave the company without anyone to run support. Of course, this is all going on in the week before Christmas, so many of us were running promotions and stuff on our sites. Or were. Anyway, cutting a long a frustrating story short, the sites were down for about a week. Suddenly on Christmas Eve, SQL came back up, eventually followed by the sites themselves. No explanation, no word from CyberPixels (who nobody had heard from for the duration of the downtime). The first thing we all did when the service was back up was to download current backups and make sure we were covered. The second thing? Searching for a new webhost. Days later I discovered Dreamhost, and I've never looked back. They've upgraded our accounts (free, Gmail style) tons of times, I now have 20gb of storage and 1TB (yes, TB) of bandwidth. If you're reading this and thinking "wow, sure sounds reliable, kinda like those email providers offering 100gb", seriously, DH rule. They have a personal blog and I won a free year's hosting and domain just by entering (and not winning, might I add) a video editing contest. They gave that prize to all the entrants. As for support and uptime, they're perfect, the name Dreamhost really isn't an exxageration. Anyway, to conclude the story, my site was just recovering from the Santy worm, so once I'd repaired it and backed everything up, our CyberPixels account was left to expire (it was due anyway) and we moved to Dreamhost. However, as a final insult, CyberPixels, without asking us, or contacting us in any way to explain the crazy week, billed us for another year's service without our approval (we hadn't signed for a 2 year package or anything). After some angry phonecalls we got back the cash, but I would heartily reccomend Dreamhost and warn anyone reading this to steer clear of CyberPixels (who are, beyond belief, still operating).

At DreamHost you can currently get 1TB of transfer per month for $8. It's on a shared hosting plan, so the performance probably wouldn't be there for something like Google Video, but that's some pretty cheap bandwith.

If anyone feels like it, here is an affiliate link(I get paid).

At DreamHost you can currently get 1TB of transfer per month for $8. It's on a shared hosting plan, so the performance probably wouldn't be there for something like Google Video, but that's some pretty cheap bandwith.

If anyone feels like it, here is an affiliate link(I get paid).

If you're looking for a better provider then GoDaddy, I would recommend http://dreamhost.com/. Good service, fair pricing and really generous hosting packages.

Disclaimer: I am not an employee nor affiliated with dreamhost.com. In fact, I work for one of their (and GoDaddy's) competitors.

I run a few PHP sites at DreamHost. For each domain you can choose PHP 4 or 5. I run all my domains on PHP 5, it works out well. You can host unlimited domains on any account, and your disk space and bandwidth are increased every week. It has a nice community atmosphere with forums, voting on new features, and a humorous newsletter.

Follow the link to find out more (note that if you sign up with this link, you'll be my referral)
http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?sproutworks

I hope you don't consider me "too stupid to exist" after you read my response.

I go to the public library. I read a *LOT* of books. I now decide to publish a newsletter of my book reviews...That is *fair use*.

You make a reasonable argument about this hypothetical newsletter. Your newsletter would presumably include some kind of rating, a little commentary about the author's writing style and the substance of the plot, and so forth. You would be using the "snippets" from the books to supplement content you created (which is the point of copyright law - to encourage creation of works).

The problem with your analogy is that Google is not proposing reviewing the books. They are not adding any content of worth to the book. The entire value of the web page they serve with the snippets, in fact, is the words from the book. I believe that by this reasoning, they do not qualify for fair use because they are not providing news reporting, commentary, or the other protected means of fair use.

There are other reasons I oppose what Google's doing as well. Whether Google "knows better" than the publishers or not is irrelevant. If the publishers don't want to release their books like this, they shouldn't have to - just like the movie studios don't have to release tapes or DVDs if they don't want to.

When I consider the publishing industry and Google in this scenario, I can't help but see the publishing industry as the victims and Google as the aggressors. I feel that if Google were to switch to opt-in, which is essentially all anybody is asking of them, economic pressure from the publishers that do "get it" will eventually push a majority of them to make their books available.

Companies these days have lost perspective. Happy customers == profit, and it's a lot easier (and much more fun) to make your customers happy than forcibly extract cash from them.

We need more DreamHosts in this world.

Most porn sites are hosted by big porn-friendly (and porn-specific) hosting companies. They tend to offer package deals -- server space, all the scripts required to accept payment and handle accounts, and sometimes even porn to sell. (Ever wonder why a lot of sites have the same pictures? That's why.)

It's because most hosting companies have some restrictions on "naughty" content in their TOS; or they did, last time I was in the market. So if your business depends on hosting porn, you really want a host who is totally ok with it. (I went with Dreamhost for my vaguely naughty site. It seems to be a good choice.)

So it's possible that the GP was talking about a master porn site, with a whole lot of other sites hosted. It's also possible that it was just a decent sized independent site. I'd imagine that serving large hi-rez pictures and movies isn't something you can do with just a handful of servers for any sort of reasonable customer-base.

Dreamhost, the ever-popular cheap geeky webhost, has supported PHP 5 for a while. They actually give you an option between PHP 4 and PHP 5 in their control panel on a per-domain basis.. that's the way they do business.

If they are going to use an scheme to avoid the kids enter the chats, I hereby propose rescuing the questions that the engine of the first Larry Laffer game made with the same intention.

They worked, right? Right???

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Better use the Coral, althought it has its shortcomings also, like the weird port number (bad for some corporate firewalls).

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20 Lawmakers Want to Kill Your Television

... but why? I haven't even paid it totally yet! :(


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I'm very surprised to see this change now, being the virtual processors in the market for years.

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Well, this is almost as old as the live-cds, a quick search within slashdot gives us even servers in a usb key.

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What were they thinking? That this is an amazingly bad idea is so clear I just can't help believing in the ramifications. As things weren't bad enough with the pandemia risk of the bird's flu!

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Submitters should link to a profile when mentioning someone: Marc Andreessen. It's not that hard, like using coral cache for the links.

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Maybe this way the user base of Mozilla-based web browser will grow a little, as the Firefox rise seems to be losing momentum.

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Sharp LCD Display with 1,000,000:1 Contrast Ratio

Yeah, but does it got better resolution than the real world?


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Linus Says No to 'Specs'

No 'specs'? But why? They're great machines, they would make great servers!

Please tell me is not for the RAM. Not for the RAM, please.


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SOA in the wikipedia.


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No, according to the wikipedia article on him, he is not related to John.

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Data from the Internet Movie Database: Gross of the three episodes.

* Ep I: $431,065,444 (USA) (30 January 2000)
* Ep II: $310,675,583 (USA) (27 April 2003)
* Ep III: $380,101,660 (USA) (18 September 2005)

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That's the problem with big iron using ancient languages like Cobol, no young programmers do learn it nor use it at personal projects.

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People supplying energy for the people? Big electric companies will never allow it.

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Could it be used to create a "language map" that shows the interactions across the history of the population of the continents? It would be cool.

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Well, that would explain the long wait, but what about the features dropping?

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Opera is a nice browser, but I just can't understand their policy on the keyboard. If you use KDE it says you have to change some hotkeys of the enviroment, instead of changing them on the program.

And they really should change to Ctrl+T to open a new tab, IMHO.

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