Scott Yang's Playground

Via Delimiter.com.au, Larry Bloach of Netregistry backs Gerry Harvey’s campaign on applying GST to imported goods/services. I personally don’t care if Harvey Norman’s or Myer’s profitability is adversely affected but the uneven playing field does affect hundreds of thousands of Small Businesses, and for the families and employees of these, it’s another matter all together. [...]

LowEndBox — Yes you can run 18 static sites on a 64MB VPS at VPSLink. Step by step commands included to get a plain vanilla net-install Debian 5 Lenny VPS with only 64MB RAM, to run WordPress.

LowEndBox.com: Virtual Private Servers Comparison Matrix for VPS plans and providers under $7 USD a month. I am talking about a complete Linux server with root account and a dedicated IP address (not some dodgy oversold shared hosting plans), although most low-end plans have no more than 64MB of memory. Well, my first web application [...]

Long story short. I am currently leasing an under-utilised Virtual Private Server (VPS) in Los Angeles. I have 5 free web hosting accounts to give to friends of this blog. Here are the specs: Lxadmin control panel running on Lighttpd (i.e. no .htaccess) 250Mb storage 5Gb monthly data transfer 4 MySQL database Hosting 2 domains [...]

Matt of WordPress.com has announced domain registration and mapping for their blogging service — $10/year if you already have a domain registered, or $15/year if you register through them. Very well priced service on a very scalable platform. I’ll sign up if I don’t already have more blog sites than I can currently handle.

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 [...]

Matt Mullenweg of WordPress.com has released VIP Hosting, where you get to host your blog on WP.com’s load balancing failover-ready hardware/infrastructure, using your own domain name, and there will be dedicated system administrators looking after network, hardware, database, web server and installation of WordPress to ensure everything is always up. Cost? $500 to set it [...]

Unfuddle is a secure, hosted software development environment and project management solution for small software development teams. It’s like SourceForge which has good project management tools. It is like Google Code Project Hosting and very Web 2.0′ish, and has a Subversion repository. Unlike others though, is that hosted project does not need to be open [...]

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 [...]

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.

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” [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]