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Hosting

Why I dumped Domainsatcost.ca

Posted Tue, 06/17/2008 - 10:25am by rernst

I've been slowly moving all of my registered domains away from domainsatcost.ca over the past year. Why? There are several reasons:

  • Irony poisoning: $13.45 is not 'at cost' by any means. 10dollar.ca is cheaper, less annoying, and has a better interface
  • Big Irritations: you can't register a domain name for more than a year at a time. Whenever you perform any transaction, you get a 50 cent fee added to the total for the 'privilege' of using your credit card. Um, why?

New Site Launched

Posted Wed, 04/09/2008 - 10:13pm by rernst

After over a month of working on it in the little time I could spare, I've finally readied the new Shadowlife.

I thought about it for months, and I kept coming to the same conclusion: Wordpress was too limiting, and it was too difficult to add the features that I wanted to add. Now I have the opportunity.

So what's new? Let's see...

  • A better image gallery
  • Real 'pages' with better information
  • A new theme (though, I really did like the old one)
  • Reorganized Taxonomy and image categories
  • Better tagging

Attention: Hosting providers

Posted Mon, 02/11/2008 - 4:35am by rernst

Every time I recommend you, I put my professional reputation on the line. If you screw up badly or your site goes down just as I recommend you, I look bad as well.

I know it's not reasonable to require 'Five 9's' of uptime, but whenever anything happens with a host, it always seems to be at the worst possible time. Cosmic Karma, maybe?

Humeganormous Email Accounts

Posted Tue, 01/31/2006 - 8:08pm by rernst

Owen Winkler writes about AOL's new 2 GB email accounts. These were first deployed back when I worked for them for a term, and Owen's post reminded me of a question I'd asked back then: Does it matter?. To me, not really. I don't keep my email on the web anyway. If I did, it might be a bit heavy on the storage side, but there's no way that my email dating back to 1998 would take up 2 and a half gigs.