July 12, 2003

As the blog turns

I just wanted to send a brief thanks to everyone who is sending me advice, suggestions, hosting offers, and donations -- thank you thank you thank you!

I have already set up compression on the site's main index page using the php thing from this site, and the leknor site confirms that it is now gzipped, so that should help. The spambot/spider/etc. usage is under investigation as we speak. I am still shopping possible new hosts. Repeat after me: chaos is our friend, chaos is our friend, chaos is our friend...

Posted by Andrea Harris at July 12, 2003 02:22 AM
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Andrea, my host offers 20 Gig bandwidth per month and 500 MB storage for $8. If you're interested, you can find their link on the right-hand side of my page at the bottom under credits. (Yes, I get a kickback.)

Posted by: Venomous Kate at July 12, 2003 at 03:09 AM

Good lord, that's a good deal.

We should really figure out what's causing Andrea to chew up so much bandwidth though. Even with thousands of visitors per day between her site and Tim's, something else fishy has to be going on.

Posted by: Dean Esmay at July 12, 2003 at 05:45 AM

Dean's got a point - the 'bots appeared to be the biggest cause for alarm, hopefully the .htaccess mod will swat that down.

The gziping appraoch is great too, both for the bandwidth concern, and for being nicer to your dialup readers - implemented at SR now.

And Kate, I really must take you shopping!

500MB 35Gb/mo (and they seem to be advertising a 'supersize' special 1GB 45Gb/mo, on yearly plans) for $7.95 (with year plan) $6.95 (for 2 year).

Inexpensive, quality hosting is out there!

Posted by: Wind Rider at July 12, 2003 at 11:10 AM

Omigosh! when trackback pings attack!

sorry Andrea!

Posted by: Wind Rider at July 12, 2003 at 11:34 AM

I've been trying to folow this conversation, and I realize I know nothing about how to read all the reports I get for my domain. Does anyone know of a book or someplace online, like a domains for dummies, that I could use to actually understand what y'all are talking about? I wouldn't even know how to tell if I was using too much bandwidth.

I should know all this, but I'm clueless.

Posted by: Ith at July 12, 2003 at 01:58 PM

My host is PowWeb.com. You get 650MB of space and 45GB/month bandwidth for $7.77 a month. I've had pretty good luck with them so far.

Posted by: susan b. at July 12, 2003 at 03:56 PM