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There are a couple of upgrades happening this week that I wanted to let you know about. First, and most exciting, is Netvibes Ginger is getting released to the public! Yes, that means you! Even if you’re not an existing Netvibes user, starting tomorrow, you will be able to get your very own Netvibes profile! Just pop over to Netvibes.com, and sign up. Done!
The other upgrade I wanted to let you know about is from my webhost, 1and1.com. On March 06, 2008 between 12 am EST and 6 am EST, 1and1 will be upgrading the servers that t-e is hosted on to the rock solid Debian/Linux 4.0 operating system. In addition, Perl, Python and Ruby are all getting upgraded to the latest. What does this mean to you, my dear visitors?
Actually, not that much. There may be a brief outage during the upgrade, but apart from that, t-e will be exactly the same, though I am hoping that my already good load times will get great, but that’s just me. I’m not expecting any problems, because in the 4 years I have been with 1and1, the (very) few problems I have had were resolved within a matter of minutes, even when I called tech support at 3 am.
With hosting plans starting at $4.99/mo, and one or more domains included (depending on the package), and additional domains priced at $6.99/yr for a .com, 1and1 would have to truly screw up to convince me to move. But all of that pales for the geek in me, when confronted with the fact that my sites are hosted in a $25 million dollar facility, with daily backups and triple redundancy. If you hear a strange dripping sound, that’s just me drooling. Sorry.
If the preceding paragraph sounded a bit like a sales pitch, I apologize, but I truly am a bit of a fan of 1and1. I cannot recommend them enough to anyone who is on the lookout for solid, reliable, and affordable hosting. End of sales pitch.
All in all, a busy week, with more coming up. I have some related experiments on the go, and will be reporting the results soon. Without giving away too much, they involve Entrecard, Project Wonderful, and Spott as effective means of generating traffic.
That’s it for today, and I will talk to you soon 
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 at 2:12 pmand is filed under Every day, News, Site Updates. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
