Mar 25
I moved webhosts.
I’m back with Dreamhost again. I only left them when I did because I wanted windows hosting. I wanted to try my hand at making .net web applications. I was on a windows based hosting machine for a whole year. And it was hell. No shell/telnet access meant everything had to be done through ftp. The control panel was a pain in the ass.
I signed up for a ‘Personal plus’ account with Webhostasp. The promised 99.9% uptime is more like 25%. They have really bad DNS. I think they don’t even have a static IP. I lost data with them too. The email server took 3 days on average to route mails.
And to top it off, the support people were jerks who rarely replied. I’m lucky I got my domain transferred in time. Thankfully, that ordeal is over.
Dreamhost rocks my socks. And because I like giving and getting free things, you can sign up with Dreamhost using the promo code ‘NFXPROMO’ and save $34.40 off your bill and get another free domain. That’s 2 free domains total!
written by theplasticpoet
\\ tags: hosting
Feb 02
Not.
HP tried REALLY hard to fuck up what could have been such a nice show. HP should stick to making shitty printers. The event was mismanaged. Nothing quite as bad as I am making it out to be, but it certainly could have been better.
I got there around 6:30 and met up with a friend. They let us in without much hassle and the generous Trendcrusher Pete accidentally gave us four tickets instead of two. Sadly, we had to return these out of decency.
So we went around the place checking things out, meeting people, breaking HP computers and stuff, waiting for the show to start. They had this really nice painting kiosk thingy for little children, who weren’t even allowed in. They had four crappy HP computers running Need for Speed Carbon on them. Good game, but shitty computers.
I don’t know what happened during the time I was getting some B/W film from Salaam stores, but when I got back, they had some lame comedian clown on stage. “Irra rwerre ougam firrim Scotland” was all I could hear. Seriously. Scottish pub sideshow comedians can not make a sober audience laugh. On top of that, he was filled with random borrowed clichéd material. What a sorry sod.
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\\ tags: food, gig, indiephone, pictures, sunking
