Hammer And Ruler Balance
Posted 3 weeks, 4 days ago at 1:49 pm. 0 comments
It’s not an illusion. It’s not photoshopped. Its physics. Try it yourself.
Whats To Come
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago at 12:30 am. 0 comments
I’ve been very busy lately and have been neglecting my blog like none other. Part of the reason has been because I can’t think of anything to write about lately. The hackintosh is still works great for anyone who is wondering. My endeavors in programming have expanded. I plan to start a few new websites in the near future. One of them that I had in mind is technology based, but from a stupid-comedy standpoint. I’m defiantly going to start brain storming a little more so I can keep this blog interesting. I’m thinking about doing a few more Cocoa tutorials as well as some advanced stuff. As for that PlayerLite crap I posted earlier, don’t download it. It is a piece of crap and I admit it. I just wanted to try out NSSound and also wanted something simple that could just play my few music files without having to keep a library. It worked for me though. The interface was complete crap though. The experience was good though. It was my first app that wasn’t from a tutorial at all. It functioned almost exactly how I wanted to make it. But now, even I use iTunes now because I got an iPod Touch.
Check back soon for some posts!
Thanks,
Wildwobby
After the Digg
Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago at 3:38 pm. 3 comments
Digg This!
On the morning of Feb 3. I was featured on the front page of digg.com. This caused my site to get an huge amount of traffic compared to what I was used to. About 60,000 unique visitors came to my site in 24 hours. It took down my home server right away. I quickly transferred to hostnine. It worked for a little while. But then, the site got really slow again. So I added an ‘index.html’ file to over-ride the index.php file from wordpress to try and keep the site up. I just copied and pasted the popular post into the html file. This saved the site. At the end of the day, after the superbowl, I put up the regular site again as traffic had died down to around 4,500 visits/hr. It worked perfect… until 3:30PM the next day. I go to my site to see how things are coming and I see “Site Suspended.” Furious, I tried to get in contact with hostnine. Their phones went un-answered, the live support answered after over 1 hour in a queue which kept notifying me I was the first in line. When someone finally did answer, I stated my problem and he went un-responsive. I emailed all the listed on their site, and in the mean time, since I had a reseller account I changed the suspended page to the text contents of the post. This way it atleast displayed the content people were coming from minus the images. Josh got back to me by email and said he personally suspended the account because it was too busy. At this point I used only 3Gb bandwidth and the site was on this server for over 24 hours. Now this account was allowed 150Gb bandwidth. If you do the math, if the 3Gb bandwidth a day kept up… which it wouldn’t… for a whole 30 day month, the total bandwidth for the month would be 90Gb. This is not to mention that it was 3Gb per about 30 hours and not per 24 hours. I was furious. I emailed Josh back and told him my side of the story. I told him to un-suspend me or I’m canceling.
Sorry, that’s not going to happen, your site used more than the allowed 5% combined CPU and RAM which is clearly stated in the terms and conditions you agreed to when you signed up.
So, be my guest.
Let us know if you need anything further, we’ll be happy to help!
Thank you for choosing HostNine!
Best Regards,
Joshua Brown
Level 2 Technical Support
Abuse/Billing Manager
I never read that anywhere so I asked where in the TOS it said that. He linked me to the TOS and quoted it. It did say that. I looked up the google cache of their TOS. Whoa, whoa, whoa… On January 28, 2008, when the paged was cache it said nothing about any 5%. Keep in mind that I was hosting under a reseller account which was actually signed up a while back.
Contrasting with the current TOS. So it appears they changed their TOS after they suspended me because they realized they didn’t have a legit reason to suspend the account even though I was slowing down their over-crowded server. I emailed Josh back about this, and he hasn’t mailed be back since. I guess he knows he just got owned.
Now however I have the site all back up and ready to go. I thank everyone who is blogging about my recent $350 mac article and I encourage you to digg this article for two reasons:
1. To show H9 that they absolutely suck.
2. To show people that H9 absolutely sucks.
Posted 10 months, 1 week ago at 8:31 pm. 0 comments
I was looking at my awstats report and saw that a bunch of hits are coming in from Google. I am listed on the first page for ‘macbook pro penryn’ and never would have guessed that would generate such a traffic flow.
Google Apps
Posted 10 months, 3 weeks ago at 11:52 am. 1 comment
I have set up Google Apps on my new domain now. It was easy to sign up. Last time I tried I had to be put on a waiting list and wait a few months before using it. This time, it got set it up immediately, which was very nice. I had to change a few DNS settings for it work, and this time around, I did it flawlessly thanks to Google’s godaddy specific instructions. Anyways, now I am allowed 100 @wildwobby.com email adresses with 6+Gb of storage each with Gmail’s interface.
So far, I am really impressed with Google apps. They are giving me an email server, over 600Gbs of space (6Gb * 100 accounts). I only need 1 account, so I have 99 (And then I can request for more user. Up to 1,000 I believe) accounts to give if anyone would like to get one. You will also get Google Pages space with a *.wildwobby.com domain which I am setting up now. Well, I’m really starting to like all of this control I have over my server, I can do almost anything I want for free it seems.
I’m now known as wildwobby.com!
Posted 10 months, 3 weeks ago at 1:37 am. 0 comments
No more of that blogdns bullshit. I used some left over money in my paypal account from selling photos and bought www.wildwobby.com. It looks nicer, and is easier to remember. It could have gone a little easier. I got confused over the DNS settings. I was switching it back and forth between Godaddy and zoneedit. Because it takes a while for settings to percolate, I am just seeing the results now…. Half the time it is going to Godaddy’s parked domain page, the other half to my site. I’m hoping I settled on the right setting and I’m pretty sure I did, but I’ll have to wait ’til morning to find out. It’s 1:30 AM here.
Although I’m keeping wildwobby.blogdns.org active (it leads to this site anyways), I am gonna start changing all the links I can that lead to forum signatures of mine. That will be quite a task. I’m off to get some sleep for now and just wanted to share the news!
Welcome
Posted 11 months ago at 12:38 pm. 1 comment
Thank you for visiting my site!
I’m just getting started now and would like to introduce you to the site.
I will write articles, tutorials, tips, and random bits and bytes about the things I’m knowledgeable in. You will mostly see things about web design, programming (especially php), photoshop, photography, computers (windows, mac, and linux). I personally use Archlinux, Windows XP, and within one month, MAC OSX on a macbook pro.
Besides articles, I am also looking foward to using this site as a playground for my creative endeavors and personal learning. Now sit tight and enjoy the ride!