The Geekette Speaketh

Apologies for the sudden interruption of your daily viewing. Apparently my web host experienced a major unforeseen power interruption. The likes of which would never really have happened had their building manager actually informed them of it. The loss of power to their whole floor resulted to several of their servers getting fried when electricity was switched back on again.

But all's well now. Back to regular programming!

I got really fed up with my old web host. It was terribly slow and absolutely impossible to maintain from my end. Trying to backup my database as well as my files was an absolute pain since the FTP kept timing out on me. So in the last quarter of 2007 I decided to look around for a new web host.  I was first toying around using a virtual private server (VPS) and eventually got an account with SliceHost (more on that next time). But eventually I decided to use it for something else.  That's when I came upon NearlyFreeSpeech.Net. READ MORE ABOUT IT »