Yearly Archives: 2007
Sep 23, 2007 by Matt | Posted in Hosting
You’ve probably seen the amazing web hosting deals offered by companies like BlueHost, HostMonster, and LunarPages. The claim to offer something like 300GB of storage, and 3000GB (3TB) of bandwidth for the low price of $7/month (or similar).
Do you really think that’s possible? Looking at storage space alone, a 500GB Hard Drive costs $150. Do the math, no one can afford that. You’re paying $7/month for your hosting account ($84/year), right? Now, you’re buying what’s called shared hosting. For $7/month you have access to a small slice of a server’s resources. There are probably 100 other websites hosted on the same computer as you. So, that would mean that computer would need 30000GB of storage (300GB x 100 users). That’s 30 Terabytes, or 60 of those 500GB hard drives! There’s no way any webhost could afford that, and there’s no way their servers would accept that much storage.
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Sep 21
The blog NorthXEast (which I read) is, unfortunately, up for sale. It’s a great blog, with a cool layout, and some strong stats. It has 75,000+ unique visitors a month. 103,000+ pageviews per month. PageRank of 4 $175 current monthly revenue 2000+ RSS subscribers,…
Sep 20
This tutorial will teach you how to build a “Book Rotation.” On pageload, it picks a random book from a list of your favorites, and displays it’s title and cover, linking to it’s Amazon page with an affiliate link. You can see it in…
Sep 19
People have been bashing BlogRush for the past couple of days, because they haven’t yet delivered their promised “rush of traffic.” After releasing statistics to their users, everyone started blogging about how they had x impressions of their headlines, but only a few clicks.…
Sep 19
Last month, some idiot decided that commercial websites should block the Firefox web browser because some Firefox users (read: 87% of Digg users) utilize the Adblock extension to block advertisements from being displayed. The arguements continue. Though most people (most sane people, anyway) agree…
Sep 17
VirtualHosting.com has just published a great tutorial on tweaking your WordPress installation to speed things up and consume less server resources. By implementing some of the recommended tweaks, you can maximize the amount of traffic you get per megabyte of bandwidth, saving money along…
Sep 17
The term “above the fold,” carried-over from the print world, refers to everything seen before the fold in the newspaper. In web design, its meaning is virtually the same, referring to the first screen of content. Basically, if you can see it without scrolling,…
Sep 16
FeedIcons.com, the easiest way to grab a copy of the standard RSS icon, has recently received a redesign. The light-on-dark design, like the old version, makes the orange feed icons stand out. The other colors don’t look bad either. The design is made-up from…
