I mean to host it at one of the many, many webhosting solutions out there. If bought in bulk, particularly on sale, 10 years worth of hosting + a domain name for the same period of time can be bought for less than $3.00 a month. No expensive commercial ISP connection required. Plus easy "push here to install blog software" button, free software updates, guaranteed uptime, etc etc. An initial layout of $200-300 will net you a blog for 10 years, plus you have the benefits of using all sorts of site statistics software not available on basic "free" blogs.
Why host it yourself if using existing services works so well?
Because hosting it yourself gives you infinitely better control of your content.I don't just mean against legal threats, I mean in presenting your information to the public/your readers. Blogger is pretty rudimentary compared to what you can do with something as basic as WordPress, and you can just go crazy with other free things like Drupal. The term control also conveniently includes backup and legal protection from the DCMA. If blogging about music is your hobby, which if he was doing it for five years, it probably was, then it's worth it to yourself to bite the bullet and buy the hosting/domain for 5-10 years. If you buy in bulk most registrars and hosting solutions will give you crazy good deals. I bought my domain on sale for $1/year and bought the maximum I could buy at the time (15 years) and bought 7 years worth of hosting for less than $200. That boils down to about $2.50 a month. Most people spend more on coffee in a morning. When you look at the cost of blogging as a hobby, it's almost free, even if you pay for it. If you've got enough viewers/bandwidth issues you can double or triple your bandwidth for only a dollar more a month usually.
I'd been "blogging" since I was 16, but couldn't afford the domain name/hosting until college. I'm sure when my domain/hosting expires in five years I'll buy another 20 years worth of hosting. Not investing in a website for a blogger is like an author not investing in a typewriter/computer.
If you're going to host a blog for five years, why not upgrade to hosting it yourself? Even technically challenged simpletons can install wordpress on most large webhosts these days (mine was installed with the single press of a fat, green "install wordpress now" button). Surely you can handle that if you're capable of getting permission to host, and then upload and link to the MP3. Blog hosting through a 3rd party once you're old enough to afford it, particularly if you've been writing in it for years (with no backup??? wtf?) is just asking for trouble.
Seattle already has 400 optic fibers between every municipal court, police station, sub station, jail and holding area. It's a pretty substantial network, and all the leg work has already been done to get it across I-5 (that's the major hurdle). Go google "Jerry Hedstrom" in the mid 1990s Network World archives. Seattle probably has more dark fiber strung across (under) highways than any other city in the nation.
Or you know, just run some conduit down the utility shaft. A 100' cord would have worked too though, we were only two floors from the top of the building.
What's the cost of a good set of UPSes vs simply migrating to a Colo & fatter pipes? Datacenters (most of them anyways) promise at least a few hours of generator uptime, and it sounds like you're already using a colo somewhere (dns relocation, etc).
Out company got to the point of almost bribing building management to let us put a generator on the roof for our use, since the cell companies already had diesel generators up there to power their cell phone antenna equipment. They still wouldn't let us though.
Its a privately administered group of servers on someones colo box. When the game server goes down, or Valve releases a major TF2 update during quakecon (yes that happened this last year) shit gets broken and people's clients are updated but the server is not. I guess most game servers are rented out of a cloud but our situation is slightly different.
You've got to admit though he has a point about it being a big time sink. On the other hand, it's hard to explain to explain to someone why you don't get their pop culture TV reference and not come across as "that guy". I had to ask a friend the other day who Jack Bauer was, and the bad one-liner joke followed by the guy putting on his sunglasses "internet meme" actually came from one of those CSI shows:(
I would imagine adding TLS encryption for 400 MILLION users litterally overnight might be slightly taxing to their already overtaxed servers. They're adding something like 500,000 users a week (I shit you not, look at their statistics) so anything they can do to minimize server load without degrading service is probably a plus for them at this point.
Came here to post this, found out I was beaten by the FP. Are you listening Valve???
Somebody mod this up. Between gchat and steam, that covers 90% of my non-buisness e-socialization. Also it'd be nice to message the server admin on his phone to rcon in and reboot the server when he's not at his computer (never, it seems like).
Pretty sure it's the same group of writers from pilot to season 5. That's the problem with writing a series that has a clearly defined storyline. Unless you can pull a gilligans island it stagnates really quick if you try and drag it out.
Man the millitary types just crawl out of the woodwork when you post anything negative about them. The point was that they were actively scrimming and the Chinese sub managed to bypass their sensors.
Yes, that really happened in real life. It also happened in Tom Clancy's book "Executive Orders". Let me summarize the headline for you real quick, The uninvited guest: Chinese sub pops up in middle of U.S. Navy exercise, leaving military chiefs red-faced
When the U.S. Navy deploys a battle fleet on exercises, it takes the security of its aircraft carriers very seriously indeed. At least a dozen warships provide a physical guard while the technical wizardry of the world's only military superpower offers an invisible shield to detect and deter any intruders. That is the theory. Or, rather, was the theory. Uninvited guest: A Chinese Song Class submarine, like the one that sufaced by the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk American military chiefs have been left dumbstruck by an undetected Chinese submarine popping up at the heart of a recent Pacific exercise and close to the vast U.S.S. Kitty Hawk - a 1,000ft supercarrier with 4,500 personnel on board. By the time it surfaced the 160ft Song Class diesel-electric attack submarine is understood to have sailed within viable range for launching torpedoes or missiles at the carrier. According to senior Nato officials the incident caused consternation in the U.S. Navy. The Americans had no idea China's fast-growing submarine fleet had reached such a level of sophistication, or that it posed such a threat. One Nato figure said the effect was "as big a shock as the Russians launching Sputnik" - a reference to the Soviet Union's first orbiting satellite in 1957 which marked the start of the space age. The incident, which took place in the ocean between southern Japan and Taiwan, is a major embarrassment for the Pentagon. Battle stations: The Kitty Hawk carries 4,500 personnel The lone Chinese vessel slipped past at least a dozen other American warships which were supposed to protect the carrier from hostile aircraft or submarines. And the rest of the costly defensive screen, which usually includes at least two U.S. submarines, was also apparently unable to detect it. According to the Nato source, the encounter has forced a serious re-think of American and Nato naval strategy as commanders reconsider the level of threat from potentially hostile Chinese submarines. It also led to tense diplomatic exchanges, with shaken American diplomats demanding to know why the submarine was "shadowing" the U.S. fleet while Beijing pleaded ignorance and dismissed the affair as coincidence. Analysts believe Beijing was sending a message to America and the West demonstrating its rapidly-growing military capability to threaten foreign powers which try to interfere in its "backyard". The People's Liberation Army Navy's submarine fleet includes at least two nuclear-missile launching vessels. Its 13 Song Class submarines are extremely quiet and difficult to detect when running on electric motors. Commodore Stephen Saunders, editor of Jane's Fighting Ships, and a former Royal Navy anti-submarine specialist, said the U.S. had paid relatively little attention to this form of warfare since the end of the Cold War. He said: "It was certainly a wake-up call for the Americans. "It would tie in with what we see the Chinese trying to do, which appears to be to deter the Americans from interfering or operating in their backyard, particularly in relation to Taiwan." In January China carried a successful missile test, shooting down a satellite in orbit for the first time.
...So who's to say something similar won't happen this time, except in cyberspace? Imagine, in the middle of a simulated hack, the Chinese government actually hacks our systems during a military exercise. Knowing what we know now, it's not improbable.
You're looking at it through rose tinted glasses. There have been walled gardens such as AOL practically right from the "start". The value of the internet grew with popularity, and popularity brought in the noobs, who dived head first into the most convenient bucket provided by megacorps.
A slight tangent here, but the number of obscure and/or interesting films available on bit torrent really dropped after bit torrent became main stream. Sure, you can find movies like Avatar a week before their release date, but good quality rips of independent films and just strange stuff in general sort of disappeared by 2007 or so as it got lost in the noise on trackers like supernova and the pirate bay. I'm sure there's private tracker with a community around it nowadays if I looked hard enough, but to download an obscure 60's camp scifi movie I had to wait nine days while enough people finally seeded the damn thing (doesn't help that the only torrent available was for the 1.1gb version).
Perhaps 15 years ago I would have followed this story more closely. Lucas didn't have any quality control for the animated series (of which I only watched 3 before losing interest) and you'd have to pay me to get me to waste 30 minutes watching this. This is probably the last Star Wars tv series headline I ever click on.
However, I'd love to see a Star Wars "reboot" [b]without any Lucas input[/b]. Get the writing crews from BSG and the Batman reboots plus the BSG production crew together and now we're cooking with gas.
No, I've got an (gmail) email address that I use for site registrations, which forwards to my primary (gmail) email address, and is set up to be labeled as such and skips my inbox completely. That system has worked for me pretty well; I figured I'd have to cycle out the email address once a year or so, but being scrubbed by gmail's spam filter twice, I get perhaps one false negative a month (in that label) as a result; I've never had to get a new/second "spam catcher email" in five years of using that system. I'm willing to live with that amount of inconvenience. I'm not going to jump through the "Register an email address" hoop every time I register for a site though. That's just silly.
I register for very few sites these days anyways; if they won't let me access their content anonymously I typically mentally blacklist them for the future and move on.
I bet they'd be happy to take an afternoon off and teach some kids about their hobby. They could probably bring along some more serious equipment, be more interesting, and keep their attention far longer than you'll be able to on the subject.
Steam has some pretty rudimentary social networking features. Profile pages, a wall, groups, and chat(+groupchat)/buddy list that works in game, with voicechat/group voicechat. The groups and chat are indespensible though. We managed to get six people together for a competitive 6v6 team and schedule games that way using the group and groupchat features. I probably wouldn't be playing TF2 still (and Valve selling tons and tons of copies of TF2 2.5 years after the release date) if it weren't for the community features. Prior to Steam you had to run your own website and recruit players and keep in touch with them via email. Now you just have your steam name/number which isn't publicly tied to an email address allowing people to be more willing to casually join a group or team. It's worked very well for Valve and I'd imagine Blizzard's service will be a clone of Steam with some more advanced features (an online "mapp store" - heh, get it?).
I think they're trying to minimize database hits. Not really sure what criteria it uses to show what's "popular". You can bump the number of people the live feed shows up to 9999, which is what I have mine set to, so you still have full functionality of before.
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I mean to host it at one of the many, many webhosting solutions out there. If bought in bulk, particularly on sale, 10 years worth of hosting + a domain name for the same period of time can be bought for less than $3.00 a month. No expensive commercial ISP connection required. Plus easy "push here to install blog software" button, free software updates, guaranteed uptime, etc etc. An initial layout of $200-300 will net you a blog for 10 years, plus you have the benefits of using all sorts of site statistics software not available on basic "free" blogs.
Because hosting it yourself gives you infinitely better control of your content.I don't just mean against legal threats, I mean in presenting your information to the public/your readers. Blogger is pretty rudimentary compared to what you can do with something as basic as WordPress, and you can just go crazy with other free things like Drupal. The term control also conveniently includes backup and legal protection from the DCMA. If blogging about music is your hobby, which if he was doing it for five years, it probably was, then it's worth it to yourself to bite the bullet and buy the hosting/domain for 5-10 years. If you buy in bulk most registrars and hosting solutions will give you crazy good deals. I bought my domain on sale for $1/year and bought the maximum I could buy at the time (15 years) and bought 7 years worth of hosting for less than $200. That boils down to about $2.50 a month. Most people spend more on coffee in a morning. When you look at the cost of blogging as a hobby, it's almost free, even if you pay for it. If you've got enough viewers/bandwidth issues you can double or triple your bandwidth for only a dollar more a month usually.
I'd been "blogging" since I was 16, but couldn't afford the domain name/hosting until college. I'm sure when my domain/hosting expires in five years I'll buy another 20 years worth of hosting. Not investing in a website for a blogger is like an author not investing in a typewriter/computer.
If you're going to host a blog for five years, why not upgrade to hosting it yourself? Even technically challenged simpletons can install wordpress on most large webhosts these days (mine was installed with the single press of a fat, green "install wordpress now" button). Surely you can handle that if you're capable of getting permission to host, and then upload and link to the MP3. Blog hosting through a 3rd party once you're old enough to afford it, particularly if you've been writing in it for years (with no backup??? wtf?) is just asking for trouble.
We're still using that stretch of mule tape to this day at the house :)
Seattle already has 400 optic fibers between every municipal court, police station, sub station, jail and holding area. It's a pretty substantial network, and all the leg work has already been done to get it across I-5 (that's the major hurdle). Go google "Jerry Hedstrom" in the mid 1990s Network World archives. Seattle probably has more dark fiber strung across (under) highways than any other city in the nation.
Or you know, just run some conduit down the utility shaft. A 100' cord would have worked too though, we were only two floors from the top of the building.
What's the cost of a good set of UPSes vs simply migrating to a Colo & fatter pipes? Datacenters (most of them anyways) promise at least a few hours of generator uptime, and it sounds like you're already using a colo somewhere (dns relocation, etc).
Out company got to the point of almost bribing building management to let us put a generator on the roof for our use, since the cell companies already had diesel generators up there to power their cell phone antenna equipment. They still wouldn't let us though.
This is the dumbest thing I've read in a long time.
Its a privately administered group of servers on someones colo box. When the game server goes down, or Valve releases a major TF2 update during quakecon (yes that happened this last year) shit gets broken and people's clients are updated but the server is not. I guess most game servers are rented out of a cloud but our situation is slightly different.
Facebook's site specifically requests you let them know in advance if you're going to introduce 100,000 users or more so they can free up servers to handle the extra load. So apparently the external client does put a noticeable load on their servers. I wasn't able to log in yesterday when they announced it due to demand. A "few percent" of 400 million still nets you between 1 and 4 million people.
You've got to admit though he has a point about it being a big time sink. On the other hand, it's hard to explain to explain to someone why you don't get their pop culture TV reference and not come across as "that guy". I had to ask a friend the other day who Jack Bauer was, and the bad one-liner joke followed by the guy putting on his sunglasses "internet meme" actually came from one of those CSI shows :(
I would imagine adding TLS encryption for 400 MILLION users litterally overnight might be slightly taxing to their already overtaxed servers. They're adding something like 500,000 users a week (I shit you not, look at their statistics) so anything they can do to minimize server load without degrading service is probably a plus for them at this point.
Came here to post this, found out I was beaten by the FP. Are you listening Valve???
Somebody mod this up. Between gchat and steam, that covers 90% of my non-buisness e-socialization. Also it'd be nice to message the server admin on his phone to rcon in and reboot the server when he's not at his computer (never, it seems like).
Pretty sure it's the same group of writers from pilot to season 5. That's the problem with writing a series that has a clearly defined storyline. Unless you can pull a gilligans island it stagnates really quick if you try and drag it out.
Man the millitary types just crawl out of the woodwork when you post anything negative about them. The point was that they were actively scrimming and the Chinese sub managed to bypass their sensors.
Does anyone remember this event happening?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-492804/The-uninvited-guest-Chinese-sub-pops-middle-U-S-Navy-exercise-leaving-military-chiefs-red-faced.html
Yes, that really happened in real life. It also happened in Tom Clancy's book "Executive Orders". Let me summarize the headline for you real quick, The uninvited guest: Chinese sub pops up in middle of U.S. Navy exercise, leaving military chiefs red-faced
...So who's to say something similar won't happen this time, except in cyberspace? Imagine, in the middle of a simulated hack, the Chinese government actually hacks our systems during a military exercise. Knowing what we know now, it's not improbable.
A slight tangent here, but the number of obscure and/or interesting films available on bit torrent really dropped after bit torrent became main stream. Sure, you can find movies like Avatar a week before their release date, but good quality rips of independent films and just strange stuff in general sort of disappeared by 2007 or so as it got lost in the noise on trackers like supernova and the pirate bay. I'm sure there's private tracker with a community around it nowadays if I looked hard enough, but to download an obscure 60's camp scifi movie I had to wait nine days while enough people finally seeded the damn thing (doesn't help that the only torrent available was for the 1.1gb version).
Perhaps 15 years ago I would have followed this story more closely. Lucas didn't have any quality control for the animated series (of which I only watched 3 before losing interest) and you'd have to pay me to get me to waste 30 minutes watching this. This is probably the last Star Wars tv series headline I ever click on.
However, I'd love to see a Star Wars "reboot" [b]without any Lucas input[/b]. Get the writing crews from BSG and the Batman reboots plus the BSG production crew together and now we're cooking with gas.
No, I've got an (gmail) email address that I use for site registrations, which forwards to my primary (gmail) email address, and is set up to be labeled as such and skips my inbox completely. That system has worked for me pretty well; I figured I'd have to cycle out the email address once a year or so, but being scrubbed by gmail's spam filter twice, I get perhaps one false negative a month (in that label) as a result; I've never had to get a new/second "spam catcher email" in five years of using that system. I'm willing to live with that amount of inconvenience. I'm not going to jump through the "Register an email address" hoop every time I register for a site though. That's just silly.
I register for very few sites these days anyways; if they won't let me access their content anonymously I typically mentally blacklist them for the future and move on.
I bet they'd be happy to take an afternoon off and teach some kids about their hobby. They could probably bring along some more serious equipment, be more interesting, and keep their attention far longer than you'll be able to on the subject.
Steam has some pretty rudimentary social networking features. Profile pages, a wall, groups, and chat(+groupchat)/buddy list that works in game, with voicechat/group voicechat. The groups and chat are indespensible though. We managed to get six people together for a competitive 6v6 team and schedule games that way using the group and groupchat features. I probably wouldn't be playing TF2 still (and Valve selling tons and tons of copies of TF2 2.5 years after the release date) if it weren't for the community features. Prior to Steam you had to run your own website and recruit players and keep in touch with them via email. Now you just have your steam name/number which isn't publicly tied to an email address allowing people to be more willing to casually join a group or team. It's worked very well for Valve and I'd imagine Blizzard's service will be a clone of Steam with some more advanced features (an online "mapp store" - heh, get it?).
This layout is identical to the 2006 layout, with slightly more color:
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.downloadsquad.com/media/2006/09/facebook_news_feed.jpg
You can set up a RSS feed. This gives you a lot more options than basic facebook.
I think they're trying to minimize database hits. Not really sure what criteria it uses to show what's "popular". You can bump the number of people the live feed shows up to 9999, which is what I have mine set to, so you still have full functionality of before.