Monday, January 31, 2005
Ten minutes in the slow lane
Just a quick heads up that sometime within the next day or two, this website (and actually, all of my websites) will disappear for about ten minutes or so. It seems I've grossly exceeded my monthly bandwidth allotment for the month, and while that in itself won't knock the site off-line, the fact that I'm having it moved to a more powerful server briefly will.
I suppose you could say that my current webhosting service handled things quite a bit better than, let's say, my previous webhost from way back in mid-2004. You see, my current webhost notified me early on that I was on a pace to exceed my bandwidth and incur ugly overage charges, gave me the option of retroactively upgrading to a more robust package in order to avoid those charges, and will only have the site off-line for ten minutes while doing so. Compare that to last year, in which some of you will remember my old webhost claimed to be offering unlimited bandwidth, but then arbitrarily shut down my website without warning because I had exceeded a bandwidth limitation that didn't exist.
I guess it comes down to you get what you pay for. It's just the cost of doing business, and I look forward to eventually blowing past my new bandwidth parameters when the time arrives. Anyway, if the websites disappear for a few minutes, now you know why.
For the sake of those who keep asking, I'm almost ready to write about Pages. Mainly, I'm not ready to write about it because I'm still having too much fun using it. I suppose that's enough of a hint.
Oh, and while I have your attention, one more thing: I'm currently looking to hire two regular weekly columnists for the iPod Garage. One columnist would focus primarily on his or her own day-to-day experiences with the iPod and iTunes, and the other would focus primarily on the big picture of Apple's role and the iPod's role in the digital music universe. It's about time that the iPod Garage begins to feature multiple voices and perspectives. Two additional weekly columns to supplement the three or four that I write myself would provide a robust and varied mix of topics and viewpoints each and every week. I'll only do it, though, if I can find the right people. If you think you might be one of them, just shout at me.
Just a quick heads up that sometime within the next day or two, this website (and actually, all of my websites) will disappear for about ten minutes or so. It seems I've grossly exceeded my monthly bandwidth allotment for the month, and while that in itself won't knock the site off-line, the fact that I'm having it moved to a more powerful server briefly will.
I suppose you could say that my current webhosting service handled things quite a bit better than, let's say, my previous webhost from way back in mid-2004. You see, my current webhost notified me early on that I was on a pace to exceed my bandwidth and incur ugly overage charges, gave me the option of retroactively upgrading to a more robust package in order to avoid those charges, and will only have the site off-line for ten minutes while doing so. Compare that to last year, in which some of you will remember my old webhost claimed to be offering unlimited bandwidth, but then arbitrarily shut down my website without warning because I had exceeded a bandwidth limitation that didn't exist.
I guess it comes down to you get what you pay for. It's just the cost of doing business, and I look forward to eventually blowing past my new bandwidth parameters when the time arrives. Anyway, if the websites disappear for a few minutes, now you know why.
For the sake of those who keep asking, I'm almost ready to write about Pages. Mainly, I'm not ready to write about it because I'm still having too much fun using it. I suppose that's enough of a hint.
Oh, and while I have your attention, one more thing: I'm currently looking to hire two regular weekly columnists for the iPod Garage. One columnist would focus primarily on his or her own day-to-day experiences with the iPod and iTunes, and the other would focus primarily on the big picture of Apple's role and the iPod's role in the digital music universe. It's about time that the iPod Garage begins to feature multiple voices and perspectives. Two additional weekly columns to supplement the three or four that I write myself would provide a robust and varied mix of topics and viewpoints each and every week. I'll only do it, though, if I can find the right people. If you think you might be one of them, just shout at me.
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