I’m pissed.
Happy Cogs recently did some work on the admin upgrade for WordPress 2.5. Through them, I found the hosting company Media Template . The pitch was appealing. They seemed professional, personal, all the things you’d want from a hosting company. That is, until I started digging.
One of their virtual server products costs $150 per month, and includes 2Tb of bandwidth. Excess bandwidth is charged, per Gb, at $2.56. Or, if you pre-purchase 1Tb, at half that price, $1.28 per Gb. That means that your first 2Tb cost $150, while your next 1Tb would cost $1′310.72, or 17.5 times more than your first 2Tb (1′748% to be precise).
Astounded by this absurdity I contacted their sales team. I was expecting the response to be in line with their website. Intelligent, considered, rational. I was sadly disappointed. It felt like the typical, corporate, monkey follow order, response you’d expect from Hewlett Packard or some other Indian outs...
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Facebook is turning into MySpaceFrom: callum-macdonald.com
Post Date: 2008-03-04 05:55:03
My biggest complaint with MySpace is, the profile pages get out of hand. They become outrageously long with vast numbers of images, videos and other junk. Facebook by comparison has always been cleaner, simpler and lighter. MySpace profiles take forever to load, even on broadband. Facebook profiles were snappy.
No longer.
I checked a profile today that contained a total of 1750 files coming in at 11.83 Mb. It took a total of 9minutes and 19 seconds to fully load. Outrageous. This user has ...
more RIP Bennett RobinsonFrom: callum-macdonald.com
Post Date: 2008-03-11 01:34:11
This morning I learned that Bennett Robinson passed away about a year ago.
I met Bennett on a flight from Singapore to Bangkok, he gave me the push to actually install Linux on my laptop. He was running it himself (a man in his sixties), and convinced me it was easy to make the switch. We kept in touch. There was talk of working together on a few projects, but nothing materialised on that front.
Bennett was a real open source evangelist. His business was built around open source sof...
more Twitter is borkedFrom: callum-macdonald.com
Post Date: 2008-03-14 02:30:18
It’s taken a while for me to notice, but I don’t get any messages from Twitter any more. I no longer receive SMS notifications, or IM notifications, or anything else for that matter. I just don’t get updates. I’ll probably have to start reading twitter via RSS. Bah.
Apparently this is old news .
I wonder how it will affect Twitter’s business. They’re so popular the system can’t cope. Yet they still haven’t shown a clear revenue model. WhoR...
more Talking down the competitionFrom: callum-macdonald.com
Post Date: 2008-03-18 10:59:23
I was at the Cape Town Vespa store a few days ago. All the sales people we met were talking trash about the much cheaper Vuka bikes. One chap said to us “The brakes fail after 500km.” When pressed, what he meant was, the brakes need tightened regularly on the Vuka bikes.
True, it does need maintenance. It doesn’t ride as well as a Vespa. Some would say it’s not as stylish. The Vespa has much better brakes. The Vespa is probably a lot safer. But the Vuka range starts...
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