I see. It wasn't like that the last time I tried them (though it was the FIRST time I tried them), but then again, I'd long ago stopped trying their links regardless of the situation. Thanks for the informative reply without arrogant assumptions. Accepted answer!
Well, you must know PageRank, at the core, uses the amount of links to a page to rank it, so wikipedia is bound to show up often. Expert sex change also pisses me off, because you can only see the actual answer if you pay, making me waste a lot of time when I'm not paying attention.
But I think their decision to use website speed is good, provided they test it from several different points across the globe and not just from the US. All other things being similar, I want the webpage I try first to load as fast as possible. Very often (at least for me) google's first page results take forever to load, if they load at all. Sometimes I have to try as many as 5 or 6 results before I manage to load one in less than 10 seconds. Maybe they load faster in the US, or maybe they load slowly precisely BECAUSE they are well ranked by google, but I welcome this attempt to solve that issue.
I think his point is that if China did not modify the responses in first place, this kind of problem would have had absolutely no negative consequences for users until being fixed (since all the servers should return consistent data). I don't hate China myself, but it isn't incorrect to resent those who are intentionally breaking the DNS rather than those who simply made a mistake (or ill-advised decision).
IANAL or even american, but isn't your first amendment technically speaking *below* the law? Supporting it as a foundation together with the rest of your constitution. Then lawmakers and judges add lots of crap on top of it?
As the story goes, the jewish mob, inflamed by the higher classes, demanded the death of Jesus, and the roman governor simply didn't have the balls (or didn't care) to go against them despite publicly admitting his innocence.
Silly to blame jews now for what happened 2000 years ago though. Regardless of your religion it's idiotic.
There is a huge difference between Lisboa (the capital) and other urban centers, where there is real competition, and the rest of the country, though. So it's not like a more acceptable service level is impossible over here.
I suspect that in South Africa, on the other hand, costs are strongly influenced by how far away it is from the main backbone focus points in California, Florida, New York, London, Amsterdam, etc. and the cost of deploying underseas cables all the way down there:/ AFAIK most of the world's undersea bandwidth goes around it by crossing the north atlantic, the north indian ocean and the north pacific ocean.
Europe isn't just one country. Perhaps you don't see complaints from Portugal because we can hardly ever stay online long enough to post them?;)
Your story sounds just like my typical interaction with my ISP... Except I have to do that about every six months - I've probably had trouble about fifteen times by now. They, Portugal Telecom, the former state-run company which has a monopoly on telecommunications in many areas of the country and owns one of the only two DSL infrastructures - never, EVER fix *anything* at *all* unless it's 100% broken, and even so you have to be lucky. You absolutely cannot get in touch with them - Their support staff is trained to slowly feed lies to the customer that stretch the amount of time he's supposed to be waiting gradually from 3 days up to 1 month; After 1 month they silently close the ticket. Phone calls to this support cost about a meal each and it is only open during work hours on weekdays. The only tool their support seems to be allowed to use for fixing problems is to chop the customer's allotted bandwidth in half (over and over) until the connection becomes stable; This does not result in a lower monthly bill.
When my phone line breaks, which coincidentally is the case just as I am writing this, I usually these days just go outside with a ladder and spend a few hours to make fresh cuts and mend the connection myself; If this doesn't solve things, I try different modems and routers or even buy new equipment; Ultimately, if there is nothing else I can do, I beg a few people I am fortunate to know (ex-university-colleagues and such) that happen to work in the company so they can pull a few strings and directly breathe down the necks of the actual technicians, who are one hundred percent isolated from the normal customer and do not seem to have to account for whatever the hell they spend their time doing. This was the *only* way in which I could get one of the many company-side problems with my line fixed in the past five years.
I have no idea of how the average customer deals with them without having a heart attack; From what I hear, the company is almost universally hated and other people do have trouble with them too - From shady business practices, litigiousness against their customers, paid service that is not provided, etc. For example, my own satellite TV service (provided by the same monopolistic company) has signal interruptions about every two minutes and the crappy receiver crashes whenever the TV is turned off and must go through the painfully slow booting process again. My neighbor's internet line also stopped working, but after months of being unable to do anything about it he simply told them to go to hell and set up his entire home with USB wireless modems that patch into the cell phone network provider, Vodafone, which is a perfectly good ISP; Unfortunately, this kind of service is too expensive for me to afford...
The GP was replying to "once upon a time"... If you had such problems in the past, and have issues like the one at hand now, when exactly was the U.S. a beacon of liberty?
A cheap dedicated server is a dedicated server that costs less than most others. It is never going to be cheapER than shared hosting, of course. But it's an investment worth making.
I am not replying to anyone - This is my own opinion on an ask slashdot article. I'll call tying your domain name to a company who is in a position to screw you over if your relationship doesn't work out anything I want;)
You're free to move it elsewhere if you always keep a good relationship with the company and they are truly honest people, which isn't always the case.
By exclusive control panel I meant they have an exclusivity deal with the company, so you can't request a different one.
Shared hosting is like like living in a small house with fifty strangers. All of you have a job that requires you to go in and out all the time. And there is only one door.
Go for a cheap dedicated and unmanaged server and carefully manage your own backups. Watch out for 95% billing if you have any real traffic needs. Look for reviews in forums like webhostingtalk, not review sites. As recommended by an earlier commenter, look at the nameservers and make sure you are buying from the actual provider and not a reseller. Look at the upstream providers of your selected server provider, tier-1 ISPs are good, as well as lots of bandwidth between your chosen ISP and the internet, and a good SLA. Avoid "shared 100mbps". Look for extra costs you may have to pay before actually making a contract - For example, many providers will charge ridiculous amounts of money for extra IP addresses or extra domains in some stupid exclusive control panel (*cough*Plesk*cough*). A good domain name registrar is name.com. A bad domain name registrar is godaddy. Buying your domain name from your server host is unthinkably stupid.
It may be better than nothing, but it's less than what they SAID they'd do. I'm not saying I'm unhappy about the game being back online - and for free even - but that doesn't change the fact that Cyan didn't fulfill their promise yet. Pardon my cynicism, but after all these years I'll believe it only when I see it.
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I see. It wasn't like that the last time I tried them (though it was the FIRST time I tried them), but then again, I'd long ago stopped trying their links regardless of the situation. Thanks for the informative reply without arrogant assumptions. Accepted answer!
Well, you must know PageRank, at the core, uses the amount of links to a page to rank it, so wikipedia is bound to show up often. Expert sex change also pisses me off, because you can only see the actual answer if you pay, making me waste a lot of time when I'm not paying attention.
But I think their decision to use website speed is good, provided they test it from several different points across the globe and not just from the US. All other things being similar, I want the webpage I try first to load as fast as possible. Very often (at least for me) google's first page results take forever to load, if they load at all. Sometimes I have to try as many as 5 or 6 results before I manage to load one in less than 10 seconds. Maybe they load faster in the US, or maybe they load slowly precisely BECAUSE they are well ranked by google, but I welcome this attempt to solve that issue.
...You insensitive clod!
In Australia, people would care. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't just move to Baidu.
I think his point is that if China did not modify the responses in first place, this kind of problem would have had absolutely no negative consequences for users until being fixed (since all the servers should return consistent data). I don't hate China myself, but it isn't incorrect to resent those who are intentionally breaking the DNS rather than those who simply made a mistake (or ill-advised decision).
No, that would be Leonard of Quirm's name for a completely harmless giant magnifying glass positioned between Chile and the sun...
IANAL or even american, but isn't your first amendment technically speaking *below* the law? Supporting it as a foundation together with the rest of your constitution. Then lawmakers and judges add lots of crap on top of it?
Probably the Allied Atheist Allegiance.
And you'd be right...
As the story goes, the jewish mob, inflamed by the higher classes, demanded the death of Jesus, and the roman governor simply didn't have the balls (or didn't care) to go against them despite publicly admitting his innocence.
Silly to blame jews now for what happened 2000 years ago though. Regardless of your religion it's idiotic.
Brutal Legend was one game that I was thinking recently had some great voice acting
All of Tim Schaffer's games do... His talent as a game designer probably has a lot to do with the attention given to the script and voice acting.
Exactly... Google forces all its international visitors by default into google.de, google.fr, google.es, etc.
So for the same period of time, both countries pass 2 stupid things with little opposition?
Could it have been the exact same congressman?
Also known as the human immunodeficiency virus virus.
Indeed, I wish I had 4mbps!
There is a huge difference between Lisboa (the capital) and other urban centers, where there is real competition, and the rest of the country, though. So it's not like a more acceptable service level is impossible over here.
I suspect that in South Africa, on the other hand, costs are strongly influenced by how far away it is from the main backbone focus points in California, Florida, New York, London, Amsterdam, etc. and the cost of deploying underseas cables all the way down there :/ AFAIK most of the world's undersea bandwidth goes around it by crossing the north atlantic, the north indian ocean and the north pacific ocean.
Europe isn't just one country. Perhaps you don't see complaints from Portugal because we can hardly ever stay online long enough to post them? ;)
Your story sounds just like my typical interaction with my ISP... Except I have to do that about every six months - I've probably had trouble about fifteen times by now. They, Portugal Telecom, the former state-run company which has a monopoly on telecommunications in many areas of the country and owns one of the only two DSL infrastructures - never, EVER fix *anything* at *all* unless it's 100% broken, and even so you have to be lucky. You absolutely cannot get in touch with them - Their support staff is trained to slowly feed lies to the customer that stretch the amount of time he's supposed to be waiting gradually from 3 days up to 1 month; After 1 month they silently close the ticket. Phone calls to this support cost about a meal each and it is only open during work hours on weekdays. The only tool their support seems to be allowed to use for fixing problems is to chop the customer's allotted bandwidth in half (over and over) until the connection becomes stable; This does not result in a lower monthly bill.
When my phone line breaks, which coincidentally is the case just as I am writing this, I usually these days just go outside with a ladder and spend a few hours to make fresh cuts and mend the connection myself; If this doesn't solve things, I try different modems and routers or even buy new equipment; Ultimately, if there is nothing else I can do, I beg a few people I am fortunate to know (ex-university-colleagues and such) that happen to work in the company so they can pull a few strings and directly breathe down the necks of the actual technicians, who are one hundred percent isolated from the normal customer and do not seem to have to account for whatever the hell they spend their time doing. This was the *only* way in which I could get one of the many company-side problems with my line fixed in the past five years.
I have no idea of how the average customer deals with them without having a heart attack; From what I hear, the company is almost universally hated and other people do have trouble with them too - From shady business practices, litigiousness against their customers, paid service that is not provided, etc. For example, my own satellite TV service (provided by the same monopolistic company) has signal interruptions about every two minutes and the crappy receiver crashes whenever the TV is turned off and must go through the painfully slow booting process again. My neighbor's internet line also stopped working, but after months of being unable to do anything about it he simply told them to go to hell and set up his entire home with USB wireless modems that patch into the cell phone network provider, Vodafone, which is a perfectly good ISP; Unfortunately, this kind of service is too expensive for me to afford...
I wish I had service like in north america.
On the other hand, the U.S. and Japan governments should be quarantined from the rest of the world.
Then perhaps you should downgrade that beacon to a lantern, or maybe a laser pointer... The liberty that only shone for a select few.
The GP was replying to "once upon a time"... If you had such problems in the past, and have issues like the one at hand now, when exactly was the U.S. a beacon of liberty?
A cheap dedicated server is a dedicated server that costs less than most others. It is never going to be cheapER than shared hosting, of course. But it's an investment worth making.
I am not replying to anyone - This is my own opinion on an ask slashdot article. I'll call tying your domain name to a company who is in a position to screw you over if your relationship doesn't work out anything I want ;)
You're free to move it elsewhere if you always keep a good relationship with the company and they are truly honest people, which isn't always the case.
By exclusive control panel I meant they have an exclusivity deal with the company, so you can't request a different one.
Shared hosting is like like living in a small house with fifty strangers. All of you have a job that requires you to go in and out all the time. And there is only one door.
Go for a cheap dedicated and unmanaged server and carefully manage your own backups. Watch out for 95% billing if you have any real traffic needs. Look for reviews in forums like webhostingtalk, not review sites. As recommended by an earlier commenter, look at the nameservers and make sure you are buying from the actual provider and not a reseller. Look at the upstream providers of your selected server provider, tier-1 ISPs are good, as well as lots of bandwidth between your chosen ISP and the internet, and a good SLA. Avoid "shared 100mbps". Look for extra costs you may have to pay before actually making a contract - For example, many providers will charge ridiculous amounts of money for extra IP addresses or extra domains in some stupid exclusive control panel (*cough*Plesk*cough*). A good domain name registrar is name.com. A bad domain name registrar is godaddy. Buying your domain name from your server host is unthinkably stupid.
I think he's saying the guns are eaten by beavers.
It may be better than nothing, but it's less than what they SAID they'd do. I'm not saying I'm unhappy about the game being back online - and for free even - but that doesn't change the fact that Cyan didn't fulfill their promise yet. Pardon my cynicism, but after all these years I'll believe it only when I see it.