您的blog被主持在一个共享服务器例如BlueHost， Dreamhost，或者什么？ 然后，如果您得到超过每天的500个访客您也许后是为有些惊奇在路下。 您能检查多少个网站在您的共享服务器被主持通过输入您的域名在 myIPneighbors.com.

我虽则打赌了您，如果您是在一台主服务器，您很可能将发现至少其他10个网站。 是，这是坏的。

当I首先开始blogging，我在主持从bluehost.com的便宜的$100/year也开始了。 共有的主持不会如此将是象一个专用服务器一样，如果您对挣blogging或处理巨型的交通的金钱是严肃的，您应该得到一个专用服务器。

我记得得到的Zedomax digged， bluehost下来了像那样! 并且从未恢复，直到我转移了一切到一个专用服务器。

另一方面，但，惊人的事在交换发生了到一个专用服务器以后。 因为您的网站快速地跑和不去在下(除非您得到了再digged并且同时绊倒了…)Google快速地标注您的站点，并且您在Google取得更多查寻结果。 It’s common sense that if your site has uptime of 99.9%, Google-bots and other search engine bots will crawl the site more faster.

Sometimes, I find that search engine robots are the ones gobbling up most of your bandwidth. You can always edit your robots.txt file and not let them crawl, but then you lose SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and eventually get no traffic from major search engines.

Here’s a summary of Zedomax traffic ever since its beginning in August 14th, 2006:

As you can see, well, as you can’t see also, I’ve upgraded my server numerous times due to diggs, stumbles, DOS (Denial of Service) hacker attacks, and whenever I made a new site.

You should really pay attention to how much traffic will be coming to your blog everyday to make sure your web hosting service can handle it.

Believe me, I tried these following shared hosts and they were all terrible when it came to traffic more than 500 per day:

BlueHost - The most reliable of the shared hosting I’ve tried.

DreamHost - They give you SSH2 access which is good but again, they host WAY too many websites on their servers. Result? I paid $100 for a year of hosting that I never used because my site kept going down. DreamHost is worst because they lock your site automatically when you exceed the maximum allowed bandwidth. Bluehost is much nicer in my opinion as they don’t have that system. Don’t fall into their “green” marketing scheme, when it comes to your website, you want it done right.

Lunarpages - Similar to BlueHost

I’ve tried many other ones for my previous job at Comfile, but I won’t list them all here, they all really suck in my opinion.

So, what is the best dedicated hosting?

Well, I’ve only tried 2 so far.

Aplus.net - These guys are pretty reliable until one day they had some type of packet-loss problem and ALL my 20 or so websites were down for more than 5 days!!! The funny thing was, Aplus.net itself was fine, it’s just all their customer’s servers were down. They put themselves in front of their customers. That was the end of doing business with them.

That’s when I moved everything to Cari.Net, which I already had couple sites running on. The most annoying thing is that Aplus.net seems to have customer service centers overseas. Not that I have anything against saving Aplus.net’s money, but when you are in America, you want to talk to someone in America, and want to get things done fast. Another thing about Aplus.net is that they are way too big a company now that they don’t care about little guys. All they are about is making money and who pays them more. This is an honest review of my experience with them and I am not being bitter about it, it’s the truth.

Cari.net - Right now, I am running all sites on Cari.net due to their reliability through my actual experience. I will probably try other hosting later down the road or even run my own servers but Cari.net is also priced much better than most hosting companies out there.

In my opinion, you should stick with a small to medium sized dedicated hosting company that cares about you. You want a simple host that you can call anytime anywhere without knowing your stupid registration number or get man-handled by stupid receptionists who redirect you 3 times before you get the dedicated support team.

Another thing you should think about is that the hosting company should only provide “dedicated hosting”. If they provide both, you are probably going to run into bunch of bs such as the company not providing enough support for dedicated server customers.

In all, I did learn a lot about Linux, servers, scripts, and everything you need to know about running a website through various server upgrades. If I didn’t do that, I’d probably have to pay a lot of money right now just to make new websites.

So, if you are going to make more than 1 website, get 1 dedicated server and bunch of dedicated IP addresses.

This article inspired by AhTim and LiewCF

Ouch! This woman sent her Mercedes into a river by trusting her GPS instead of common sense. Good thing I don’t use one myself. Although I love tech, sometimes I feel you lose all the fun when a machine tells you where to go. Best way for me? Learn by feel and getting lost…

So far, over-dependence on GPS devices has resulted in more inconvenience than actual danger, but things took a turn for the worse earlier this month when a U.K. woman sent her £96k Mercedes SL500 flying into a river, trusting the car’s optimistic GPS guidance instead of the road signs warning of impending doom. Matters were made worse as the river was swollen from recent heavy rains, which caused the vehicle to be swept some 200 meters downstream before the woman was able to escape.

[via] The Register