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BlueFur: One Month Later

Monday, April 7th, 2008 Posted in Web Site | 1 Comment »

After switching from StartLogic to BlueFur about a month ago I had planned to post about my experiences with BlueFur.com as a web host. I forgot about posting though and I think I know why. I haven't had any problems! ...

YouTube API Announcement

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in News, Web Site | No Comments »

YouTube has announced some enhancements to their API. The enhancements include: Upload videos and video responses to YouTube Add/Edit user and video metadata (titles, descriptions, ratings, comments, favorites, contacts, etc) Fetch localized standard feeds (most viewed, top rated, etc.) for 18 international ...

Releasing WebPerfTest Tool

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in Utilities, Web Site | 1 Comment »

I posted a while back in the article StartLogic: Day Three that I had written a little program to test the performance of my web site on a previous web host I was using. I'm releasing this application along with ...

SyntaxHighlighter vs Brian’s Threaded Comments

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in Web Site, Wordpress | 2 Comments »

I've found that the SyntaxHighlighter and Brian's Threaded Comments WordPress plugs don't play well together. I noticed that if I had commetns my code displayed by SyntaxHighlighter the comments would be displayed in boxes above the rest of the code ...

BlueFur: First Impressions

Friday, March 7th, 2008 Posted in Web Site | No Comments »

I looked a several different web hosts before deciding on BlueFur They are a smaller web hosting company. They don't boast hundreds of thousands of customers. They don't claim to offer massive amounts of disk space and huge bandwidth limits. They ...

StartLogic: I’ve had Enough

Friday, March 7th, 2008 Posted in Web Site | 6 Comments »

I've run my web performance test program for 24 hours now. The results are...interesting. During the day StartLogic performance is terrible. At about 5 o'clock the performance starts to pick up and becomes okay and continues to be okay through ...

StartLogic: Day Three

Friday, March 7th, 2008 Posted in Web Site | No Comments »

The site is back to horribly slow mode. I'm wondering if changing the PHP version really did anything or if it was just a coincidence. I wrote a little program to test the performance. I just does web requests over ...

StartLogic: Further Impressions

Friday, March 7th, 2008 Posted in Web Site | 5 Comments »

They got my site fixed at around noon. That was a little more than a 12 hour turn-around. I'm feeling a little better now. It turns out my directory wasn't created on the server when I created my account. Kinda ...

StartLogic: First Impressions

Friday, March 7th, 2008 Posted in Web Site | No Comments »

Okay, so I went with the cheap web host. That may not have been a good idea. But $4.95 a month for 1500 GB of storage and 15000 GB of bandwidth sounded pretty good. Unfortunately my experience hasn't been good ...