Comments on: The Saga of the New Web Hosting Provider

By: systemsboy

systemsboy — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:10:41 +0000

I suppose you could, but if that’s what you’re doing, maybe this is the wrong sort of service for you. In any case, I don’t see this rule being a problem for me. File size limitations, yes, but linking files via HTML, not a biggie.

-systemsboy

By: shaun

shaun — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:58:11 +0000

Regarding the 75% linked file rule, can you not just generate a list of all files on the filesystem and stick those in a html file that is not publicly accessible?

By: systemsboy

systemsboy — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:39:42 +0000

Peter,

I can’t quite justify the cost of a colo yet. Maybe some day, when TASB is pulling in gobs of cash . But for now, my $20 Grid Service should, hopefully, cut it.

And, just to be clear, I never exceeded my disk quota. The problem was that the files on disk could not be bigger than 500k according to WHB policy. Which I find totally insane.

-systemsboy

By: systemsboy

systemsboy — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:35:42 +0000

FJ de Kermadec,

Thanks for the tip! I can’t decide if WHB is being scammy or not, but it sure seems like it to me given that their policy renders their offered disk capacity useless. In any case, we’ll see how things go with MT. Hopefully it will be smooth sailing. They really get a lot of good press. I will check out Pair and consider them should I need a fallback.

-systemsboy

By: systemsboy

systemsboy — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:32:27 +0000

@Anonymous, thank you for the link to Media Temple’s Usage Policy. I looked all over for it, but it appears to be buried in their Legal link on the Company page. I will update my post to reflect this information.

-systemsboy

By: Peter da Silva

Peter da Silva — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:03:57 +0000

This is why I fork out the extra bucks for my own colo space.

If I want more disk space I just have to buy more disk.

Plus it gives me an excuse to visit the Mucky Duck just down the street.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:00:10 +0000

Taken from http://mediatemple.net/company/legal/aup_general.php

75% of customer’s content files stored on Provider’s server must have associated HTML, or PHP files inside the account linking to the content stored on that account.

By: systemsboy

systemsboy — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:26:55 +0000

Hm. Sorry to hear that. They’ve been good for me so far. But we’ll see how it goes.

Best of luck.

-systemsboy

By: Rodrigo M. Ramos

Rodrigo M. Ramos — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:00:11 +0000

I’ve been considering to move our blog here in Brasil to MT, specially because of (XV) service: http://mediatemple.net/labs/xv/index.php

But so far they even reply to our beta application request that i made a few months ago…

Just keep doing this great blog, would ya!

By: FJ de Kermadec

FJ de Kermadec — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:00:30 +0000

While my own site is nothing to look at, I do run quite a few sites for clients, and have repeatedly bumped into similar situations, even with, serious, honest companies that are just a bit over-protective or don’t monitor their servers well enough to be flexible.

My own haven has been Pair Networks, on both shared and dedicated hosting accounts. Their site may be old-fashioned but the hosting isn’t! If you ever need to spread your assets, I’d investigate them.

In the meantime, I’ll give (MT) a serious look, as one can never have too many hosts in reserve…