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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
A generous gift was bestowed upon me last week -- Dell's PowerEdge SC420 server. It came with two (2) 80GB hard drives which I have since replaced with two (2) 1TB hard drives. I decided to mirror these drives for the sake of redundancy using Linux's built-in software ...
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
The advent of YouTube, Hulu, Netflix's watch instantly feature, torrents, and offsite/online backup has made good bandwidth crucial to an enjoyable experience. The first time my wife got me killed by hogging the bandwidth while I was playing World of Warcraft I immediately cranked up the DD-WRT control panel ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
It's kind of hard to play World of Warcraft when the packet loss is 19%!
Ping statistics for 63.241.192.122:
Packets: Sent = 1177, Received = 950, Lost = 227 (19% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 61ms, Maximum = 478ms, Average = 69ms
The ...
Posted in Annoying, Depressing, Gaming, Hosting, IT, Ridiculous, Scary, Technology, WoW | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Bluehost has upped their storage and bandwidth limits to unlimited and unlimited, respectively. I'm sure if you read the fine print there are exceptions. For example, if you use more than 1% of your unlimited quota they will ban you for life. But then again, 0.1% of ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Let me just start off by saying, "WOW!"
I decided to do some updates on my desktop computer at home tonight and the download speed was awful. The maximum download speed on my current plan is 90KB/s. That's not gonna cut it for downloading gigabytes of data in a ...
Posted in Amazing, Annoying, Crime, Customer Service, Deals, Depressing, Hosting, Humor, IT, Programming, Quotes, Reviews, Ridiculous, Scary, Technology, Web Development | 6 Comments »
Monday, February 11th, 2008
That's a big encrypted bandwidth mess.
~Derek
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
When I started jeremyglover.com in 2005 I used MediaTemple. *GAG*. They are overpriced and have horrible quotas for both bandwidth and storage. I searched for a host and found BlueHost. Woo hooo!
All you have to do is take a look at the stats on the right ...
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
At some point, for a job, I was tasked with finding a good content delivery network that could host Flash videos so our server wouldn't crash when the volume was high. I was told that Akamai was very good so I decided to check them out. Below is a transcript ...
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