Scott Yang's Playground

DreamHost Blog: A Strike on One Laptop Per Child — why Nicholas Negroponte’s OLPC is flawed and how replacing the custom laptop with Nintendo DS might actually work. Exactly what I have thought. Providing starving kids with consumer electronics is not going to help them more equipped for the “real world”, and as a kid [...]

Mezzoblue: PHP files hosted on DreamHost modified to include spammy links, and apparently around 3,500 FTP accounts have been compromised on DreamHost. I guess for the friends who are also hosting on DreamHost — check your files and make sure they are still intact. Update: response on DreamHost Status blog.

Bah! I thought it was crazy earlier this year when DreamHost quadrupled the storage space and octupled monthly data transfer. Apparently it was saner than I thought, as they have just increased the storage by 10 fold and doubled the bandwidth. Now there are over 200Gb of storage and over 2Tb of data transfer in [...]

Have you noticed that Scott Yang’s Playground has been quite a bit faster over the last two days? It loads faster, renders faster, and Scott’s meaningless muse appears in front of you faster! How did I do it? No. I did not have a secret version of WordPress that can render the same page 5 [...]

HostingFu: Exploring DreamHost Promo/Discount Code. Just a plugin on an article I have written early this week. HostingFu was part of my recent addiction which I planned to use to document my web hosting experience (I am on 3 different hosting plans at the moment), and as you can see the site just went live [...]

I wrote this quite a while ago on Whirlpool forum over a debate on Australian verses overseas (usually US-based) web hosting. Thread has since been closed (not my fault :) but I think I will repost my thoughts here, looking at what is the most suitable web hosting solution for Aussies.

Have been quite stressful last couple of days — hard disk of the home server is dying, mails were dropped and files gone missing. Went out to buy a new hard disk yesterday and gotta do the upgrade tonight. But now this DreamHost DNS outage is just making my day worse. (Note: their website is [...]

Sorry that I have not been blogging here for weeks — very busy at work which translates very little time coding for my own. I wish I can just write about all the WTF I’ve enountered at work over the past weeks, trying to make a multi-threaded CORBA-interfaced Python app server scalable (note “multi-thread”, “Python” [...]

Woke up this morning, and found WordPress, the software that powers this blog, released a bug fix version 2.0.1. So I logged onto my DreamHost account via SSH, and $ wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz $ tar zxvf latest.tar.gz $ cd wordpress/ $ tar cf – . | (cd ~/scott.yang.id.au; tar xvf -) $ wget -O – http://scott.yang.id.au/wp-admin/upgrade.php?step=1 [...]

Imagine this. Like a Buffet Restaurant?! You have booked yourself and a couple of friends to this nice seafood buffet restaurant downtown. It has everything — nice food (and lots of them), good experience, live music, and the best of all — it is cheap. It costs you only five bucks to enter, and you [...]

I am talking about hosting and my Bargain Blog. I moved the site to DreamHost more than 2 months ago, but have decided to move it back to my poor old home server yesterday morning. Problems? There are two. (1) Google (2) DreamHost.

I have been running some of my sites on DreamHost or 2 months. I initially joined the Crazy Domain Insane hosting plan, which provides me more-than-enough storage space and bandwidth, but does not allow me to customise my DNS entries — this is for higher priced plans. However when I logged into my DreamHost control [...]

Stuffs accomplished this weekend. Installing Windows — our TV broke down due to bad memory, which subsequently ruin the whole box. Got a cheap replacement from eBay two weeks ago, and only had managed to reinstall Windows properly last night. Hopefully that will be the last for this year. Installing Linux — install a refresh [...]

FuCoder.com is now hosted on DreamHost. Using the cheapest hosting plan, but it still provides me far more than I need. 4.8Gb space and 120Gb bandwidth a month. Shell on Debian-based Linux server. Cron job. Etc. It is actually the first time I signed up to a hosting account — most my other sites are [...]