Delivering your promises
July 18th, 2008
One thing that webhosting as a whole seems to have difficulties with is delivering it promises. A great plan is floated up front my many webhosts, only after they have signed up and suddenly they find out that they can’t use the disk space how they want. Another very common situation is having CPU limits or Memory limits on the site which prevent you ever using the space and bandwidth you have bought. Personally I think this kind of thing is giving web hosting a bad name, the internet is filled with stories of web hosting “scammers”.
Anyway I guess the point I’m making is web hosts should start selling more honestly, there will be a backlash to the current situation. Many web hosting sites already will not let you advertise “Unlimited” plans as of course nothing is unlimited…
On a more cheery note, check this:
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Posted in Random |
Centos 5 and mpm-itk
July 12th, 2008
A long time ago someone got fed up with suexec suphp and other methods of preventing virtual hosting users messing each others accounts up. They realised that the real problem was not that there was a module missing from Apache to do it, but rather the design of Apache is such that its impossible to make it secure in a per user way. After reading Stuart Herbert discussion of the pros and cons of different solutions to this problem and his evaluation of mpm-itk i decided to look into it further.
On nice solution that has been developed is mpm-peruser but that seemed to spawn a great many processes and have performance issues so I took a look at the much simpler mpm-itk. Fortunately on Debian this module is already prepackaged, unfortunately CentOS does not have a rpm for it, nor could I find one by searching. The only option left was to patch the source httpd rpm myself.
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Posted in Development |
Site Relaunch Special
July 7th, 2008
Its another one of our famous limited time only deals, to celebrate the relaunch of hostby.net we offer this great deal to you for the whole of July!
Get 12 months of web hosting for only £5 (approx $12)
- 1GB of hosting space for any legal content.
- You can use our space for backups, image/video hosting, or even as a file store, the only limit we have is it must be legal in the USA!
- 20GB of bandwidth each month
- PHP 5.2
- As many MySql databases as you want.
- Multi-domain as standard, why waste money on 5 separate hosting accounts, when you can host all your domains at one site. The number of domains you can host is only limited by the disk space in your account.
- Email addresses and Mailboxes are only limited by your plans disk space.
- Purchasing extra space or bandwidth is easy and simple. We warn you before you go over your limits, why worry about running out of space, our hosting grows with you.
Order now, use the form below. If you want us to purchase a domain name for you we can do this, please contact sales for more information. Alternatively you can buy a domain from our domain store but you will probably get a better price if you buy from Namecheap.
Be sure to read our Terms of Service and Acceptable Usage Policy before ordering.
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Hello world!
July 4th, 2008
Or should it be welcome back?
This is the first post after a major facelift our website has been finished. We’re now powered by the wonders of Wordpress, in the next few months we will be adding a few more features to the website, including a discussion forum.
We hope you appreciate the new site and design. Many thanks to Tony Pires for his great free design which we have integrated into Wordpress. Many hours of work have gone into this and our all new hosting control panel.
Please let us know what you think.
And on that note