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A brief time out from our ongoing inability to write to say that, should any of you be on the lookout for a hosting service ‘that kicks all kinds of ass,’ I strongly recommend you get yourself over to TextDrive.
Run by and for people who love publishing on the web.
Top of the line servers, rock bottom prices and a witty and wise international support forum that just keeps growing. And, coming soon: dedicated support in French, Dutch, Spanish and German (others will follow).
Pre-installed is the sexiest CMS you ever did see: it’s the one that powers this site, so intuitive and easy to use that all I need to do is typety type, Textile it, click, et voilà.
Plus it’s being used by a large and growing community of personal and professional sites. Writers, photographers, artists, professors, musicians, travellers, designers, schools, community groups and geeks galore.
To name but a very few.
Plus, it’s Open Source.
Plus, up to June 24th, you can get a lifetime of hosting for only $199.
No shit?
No shit.
Plus, Ollie likes it.
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- fabulous! i signed up.
— michelle Jun 20, 11:45pm # - 199 USD is nothing for a forever service, so the price is right. But as a know-nothing blogstain user, I have no idea what hosting is all about. What advantages would TextDrive offer someone who wants to put words (no polls, no quizzes, no vacation snaps, no pictures of naked chicks) on people’s screens? I just want to be able to use bogger [sic] or a similar cheap (or free), simple type-and-post application to write and publish over a little dial-up connection from home using the company-provided PC. How many days or months or years of “Here’s what my cat did today” posts would it take to use up the 200 megabytes of storage? How many daily readers of such posts (plus me checking my own posts obsessively and pointlessly) would it take to use up 2 gigabytes of monthly bandwidth?
Also, may I suggest that the offer be extended to lifetime + one month’s memorial service? I would like my blog to outlive me long enough for people to link to it from their “Hurrah! He’s dead!” posts.
— eeksypeeksy Jun 22, 4:33am # - Well, let’s see.
“Here’s what my cat did today” and a followup comment about the strengths of the day’s cheese sandwich; call that 5k of data, which would fit into 200mb of storage about 20,000 times, which would mean you can produce one a day for 109.5 years without bumping into the limit, and at which point you’d cheerfully find yourself servicing about 100,000 visitors (including yourself) each month without problem.
Mkay?
— Dean Allen Jun 22, 10:19am # - Plus, we’ll throw in a month of free post-mortem eulogizing.
— gail Jun 22, 10:53am # - Hmm. That’s a lot of cat posts. And I don’t get even half that many visitors each month. Quite a good deal.
But still, don’t you have a financial incentive to kill your customers? Even with the month of free post-mortem eulogizing?
Free phone support: “To be sure that the strength of your household current is up to blogging standards, why not try what we in the data industry like to call the tingle test? The next time you’re taking a bath, take a small household appliance—any fan or toaster or radio will do, as long as it runs off house current—and plug it into the wall socket nearest the bath…”
— eeksypeeksy Jun 23, 2:37am # - Shhhh… you’re not supposed to read the fine print.
— gail Jun 23, 4:33am # - I’m in!
— Marshall Jun 23, 10:15am # - Me too.
— Ben Jun 23, 1:23pm # - And me three…
— Michael Jun 23, 2:44pm # - Any thoughts on this interesting story?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3830521.stm
— Jonathan Jun 25, 5:43am # - I love stories about untranslatables. You invariably feel you're somehow failing in your craft when you need to use five words (or more than a dozen in that case) to translate one.
And you’ll probably spend some time marvelling again at the other language, and wondering what goes on in their society for there to be a single word for “a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time”.
Maybe they’re just more observant of the human condition.
— gail Jun 26, 1:43am # - I gotta read your posts more often.
Ya, I’m in. # 13. But only ‘cause Ollie likes it. I trust Ollie. He’s got what my grandfather would call… “common dog fuck”. Which means… “good sense”.
— Ray Jul 4, 9:38am #
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