2Here is one classic piece: Lunarpages: 60 reasons why web hosts suck! Some are just out right hilarious, classified as “funny, but unrealistic” (but I could be wrong :) Some are just simple fact of life, and there is really nothing the web host can do about it. However, there are also those that give [...]
Why Good Hosting is Important (but Might Not Because of Google)
(Note: I was going to post this as a reply to Matt’s blog post, but his Typo kept on giving me “500 Application Error”. Well, I am now posting it here.) Stuart Brown wrote about switching to a dedicated server after getting digged, and had experienced (1) much better page rendering time, and (2) more [...]
Hosting Related Blogs that I Read
I am not in the web hosting industry (merely an end-user here), but reading some related blogs help me to get an understanding on what’s going on with this hosting business. Here is a partial-list of blogs that I read, but do note that this is not a “definite list”, and will certainly grow/shrink over [...]
Netcraft Surveyed 100 Million Websites
Netcraft’s November 2006 web server survey shows there are at least 100 million websites out there. Yup. 100,000,000 websites! I think the first thing that struck my mind was, how is a “website” defined? Netcraft used the hostname/FQDN model, and an unique FQDN that respond to HTTP requests constitute a website.
Python Web-Application Hosting
1While I am doing most my own websites are done in PHP, during the day I wrote web-based financial-planning applications for one of the largest deployment in Australia in this simple, elegant and yet powerful programming language — Python. Python is a great language, and there are many great Python web frame-works out there (which [...]
Australia or US-based Hosting?
Note: This is a re-post of this same-titled entry on my blog. I wrote this quite a while ago on Whirlpool forum over a debate on Australian verses overseas (usually US-based) web hosting. Thread has since been closed (not my fault :) but I think I will jog down my thoughts here, looking at what [...]