Top 10 Web Hosting Reviews: Personal and Business
I can't recall ever finding out so much information so quickly. Armed with two data points I'm sorting this out very quickly. Two of my early choices are in the top 4 on this site.
Globat
Startlogic (this is a sister site to iPowerWeb run by the same people, I'm downrating them for doing this)
lunarpages
ipowerweb
I'll check out a few more reviews and decide who I like. I'll look mostly at the clarity of the support site, quality of the documentation and FAQs, and read some more reviews. At this level features don't matter so much to me -- except I like the LunarPages WAR hosting. Overlal LunarPages is pulling ahead.
Saturday, October 23, 2004
Looking for a new hosting service
I'm looking for a new hosting service. I've used softcomca (MyHosting.com) for years, but their prices are high for what they offer and I always have problems with their FP extensions being enabled on my site -- I don't want those darned extensions!!
Some alternatives
lunarpages
dreamhost
Both of these offer vastly more than my MyHosting.com site. Lunarpages allows one to install WAR files (ie. Blogject, Zope, etc)!
Searching on these two companies (a very sneaky technique -- if you ever want to find good reviews about a service or product, search on both the product and a competitor -- eliminates 99% of the junk and almost all ads) found this comment:
"LunarPages, DreamHost, iPowerWeb, and AvaHost"
So LunarPages and DreamHost are very well ranked, as are iPowerWeb and AvaHost.
Now when I search on the above I also see some interesting Google AdWords listings.
This doesn't look hard at all.
Update: I ended up with Lunarpages. I paid for a year in advance, but they have a 30 day MBG. They had the best description of their overall services and they were the only site to mention spam filtering options for email.
Some alternatives
lunarpages
dreamhost
Both of these offer vastly more than my MyHosting.com site. Lunarpages allows one to install WAR files (ie. Blogject, Zope, etc)!
Searching on these two companies (a very sneaky technique -- if you ever want to find good reviews about a service or product, search on both the product and a competitor -- eliminates 99% of the junk and almost all ads) found this comment:
"LunarPages, DreamHost, iPowerWeb, and AvaHost"
So LunarPages and DreamHost are very well ranked, as are iPowerWeb and AvaHost.
Now when I search on the above I also see some interesting Google AdWords listings.
This doesn't look hard at all.
Update: I ended up with Lunarpages. I paid for a year in advance, but they have a 30 day MBG. They had the best description of their overall services and they were the only site to mention spam filtering options for email.
Friday, October 22, 2004
Site Studio: FrontPage LITE for OS X
Site Studio
Now this is innovative. It's a cross between a simple content management system and something like FrontPage. The application uses a variety of templates and forms to design an "web site". The site is a single XML document (looks like an OS X plist document). It can reference images and files. You click a button to generate HTML locally or to upload the HTML.
It could be used easily by schoolchildren or non-techies. There's a limited WYSIWYG editor for some web page work.
It reminds me a bit of all the creative site creation tools that came out on PCs in the 1990s. Most went away. A few mutated to become very high end tools, and FrontPage just mutated (period). This shareware tool harkens back to a lost era.
I'm not quite sure how I can use it, but I'll play with it for a while. Maybe I'll figure out a use. I don't think there's any way to use to import an existing web site.
Now this is innovative. It's a cross between a simple content management system and something like FrontPage. The application uses a variety of templates and forms to design an "web site". The site is a single XML document (looks like an OS X plist document). It can reference images and files. You click a button to generate HTML locally or to upload the HTML.
It could be used easily by schoolchildren or non-techies. There's a limited WYSIWYG editor for some web page work.
It reminds me a bit of all the creative site creation tools that came out on PCs in the 1990s. Most went away. A few mutated to become very high end tools, and FrontPage just mutated (period). This shareware tool harkens back to a lost era.
I'm not quite sure how I can use it, but I'll play with it for a while. Maybe I'll figure out a use. I don't think there's any way to use to import an existing web site.
Find a word based on a description of the underlying concept
OneLook Reverse Dictionary As we boomers age, we need to incorporate this thing into our cell phones.
jux2: Google is not what as good as it used to be
jux2 Search for special education faughnan
Google has problems. JUX2 is a metasearch tool with a novel feature -- it shows what Google misses. Turns out, Google misses a LOT. In particular it's not indexing Blogger's blogspot very well.
I think there's a problem with Google.
Google has problems. JUX2 is a metasearch tool with a novel feature -- it shows what Google misses. Turns out, Google misses a LOT. In particular it's not indexing Blogger's blogspot very well.
I think there's a problem with Google.
Review: iPod battery replacement, iPod repair services
Wired News: Pumping Up the Power of the IPod
A Wired Magazine report on iPod battery replacement for 1 & 2 G iPods. They also mention some repair services. Apparently the firewire connection in 1/2G iPods was badly designed and fails after > 1 year (out of warranty) of use. The repair is difficult. Interestingly one of my 3 replacement 3G iPods from Apple (AppleCare) had a bad firewire port -- you could charge it but not sync it.
A Wired Magazine report on iPod battery replacement for 1 & 2 G iPods. They also mention some repair services. Apparently the firewire connection in 1/2G iPods was badly designed and fails after > 1 year (out of warranty) of use. The repair is difficult. Interestingly one of my 3 replacement 3G iPods from Apple (AppleCare) had a bad firewire port -- you could charge it but not sync it.
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