More downtime. ”robert.bush” claims Site5 will now look into it.
Monthly Archive for April, 2008
So up to this point, I’ve been very pleased with my hosting provider, Site5. Recently the quality of service (qos — not to be confused with the networking term) has taken a nose dive into the proverbial crapper. I started on a server (nocsmasher) getting my three 9s of service, happy as can be because it was reasonably cheap and only down here and there. Since I was happy, I prepaid for two years of service. Now, I understand that for shared hosting to make sense to a provider, they have to cram a lot of people onto a machine. I also understand that since a lot of people are crammed on a machine, said machine is more likely to have problems providing decent service to all of the users who have sites on it. What I don’t understand is why a red flag isn’t raised when this happens:
I’m a pretty patient guy and (imo) pretty reasonable too, but why can’t my provider get the hint that something could physically be wrong with the server? I’ve opened five tickets in less than two months and for each ticket, Site5 just rebooted the machine — they never fixed the problem, which is likely either a massive oversell or hardware issue. The number of tickets doesn’t reflect the number of times I used their online support and didn’t bother with a ticket or even the time I emailed their CEO and received no answer (not surprising, the guy’s probably busy and couldn’t give two craps about a shared hosting customer).
Now what? Am I screwed out of a year’s worth of service? Who should I switch to? Media Temple? I only pay about 9 bucks a month right now and I suppose I could swing another 11 dollars if the service is good.
Suggestions?
So a little while back we released Appcelerator integration for AppEngine. Now, thanks to AppDrop, we might even be able to run it on Amazon’s cloud – pretty interesting. So, who wants to put it together? 
So there’s a new, CGI clone wars trailer that’s been leaked. Gizmodo has the goods. It looks pretty damned good to me — excited about it (big Star Wars fan)
..if the online store does not have a physical presence in the state. Ok, now seriously..wtf? I mean we’re already having insane amounts of money taken from us forcibly to be spent on crap like museums named after arrogant members of the (US) Congress who can’t even run the freaking federal government like any normal private sector business. See, there’s this novel idea called a budget. Typically individuals, like you and me, or any normal company can only spend as much as we make (well, there are exceptions but those people end up going bankrupt and so I’m considering that case degenerate and outside the scope of my argument). But not the US Government because it’s magical. It can play the credit game (like those in the degenerate case) and borrow obscene amounts of money from other countries, widen the trade deficit with said countries and kill the value of the money they take from you to begin with.
It’s pretty dumb, really. I mean we’re talking simple addition and subtraction, having a reasonably sized military, investing in the best technology via private sector research (essentially beef up research in all areas of science), moving to a tax system that leaves power in the hands of the consumer instead of a bunch of bureaucrats who could give two shits about whether or not their constituents are literally punished for being inventive, brilliant, entrepreneurial, hard working, etc. All they care about (again, there are always exceptions) is making sure they get reelected during their next term. Piss off with that. Everyone bitches and moans about the loss of jobs in the US via outsourcing, layoffs, etc. Those same people also complain about “evil, rich corporations” — what these dim whits don’t seem to grasp is the fact that corporations cut jobs and go for cheaper labor because laws are put in place here that prevent them from competing in the free market. More specifically, if I have a small business (a, GASP, C-O-R-P-O-R-A-T-I-O-N) and I have 15 or 20 employees, 35% of my income goes straight to taxes. That’s thirty-five percent that could be used to — you guessed it — hire more employees or improve the salaries and compensation of their existing employees. Such a novel idea but where’s that money going to be recouped? Well, it would just be taken from the employee instead of the company directly and better yet, if the tax system we’re a consumption-based tax (similar to VAT in the UK), said worker would choose when it was recouped. What about those evil rich people? Sorry to say it but most “rich” people in this company are just small business owners and they pay plenty into the system as it is. As for the super wealthy (the Bill Gates, Donald Trumps, and the likes), they donate significant amounts of their money to charity every year AND since many of said rich people spend more on items/services, they consume more and therefore would pay more into the tax system as it is. My general point is the answer isn’t to take more money from citizens, it’s to spend what’s taken in more wisely.