Well, I guess finding a quality webhost is the most difficult search on the web. My current webhost is good, so am not gonna move out, I’ll keep current sites on their plan. I have future plans for few other sites, I’ll host them in another host. So, after reading several rants about cheap GoDaddy shared hosting plans, I decided to test them by myself.

Go-Daddy is a popular domain seller, also a popular web-hoster. It is a cheaper hosting service too, perhaps too cheap, compared to other web-hosting services.

Well, I got, what I paid

I bought their Linux Deluxe hosting plan, 10GB disk space and 1000GB bandwidth for $6.99 monthly. They also allow to purchase a $1.95 domain for every product we purchase from them, I bought a domain. They also offered free $25 Google Adwords credits (and $50 Microsoft Adcenter credit for US publishers) for this hosting plan.

First of all, their signup process was tiresome and long, also a bit sneaky at times, coz you have to make sure each and every item, on purchase forms are stuff you’ve asked for (lookout for defaultly ticked checkboxes). I preferred to pay thru Paypal.

Then after the long deal, I had to configure account settings. After that I had to login to the Hosting Control panel. Everyone has to login to their Godaddy account thru main website first after that you have to login to Hosting control panel again. They had a crappy Hosting control panel with not much options.

I uploaded one of my current sites to test this new account, changed domain’s DNS settings …etc. Strangely, it took several hours for the domain to propagate to this new server’s IP. After that only, I noticed GoDaddy doesn’t support Htaccess and Mod_Rewrite properly, some URLs were rewritten properly, but some were not.

Eg:
Working:
Rewriterule ^tag tag.php [nc]

Not working:
Rewriterule ^tag-(.+) tag.php?p=$1 [nc]

Normally, I mod_rewrite almost all of my sites, so that’s it.

I also noticed, some other odd things. we couldn’t download raw access logs, error logs …etc. Statics were only shown for a single domain, which is your account’s root domain.

But if you are planning to host sites with some plain HTML, this is one of the best offerings, i guess. But if you’re into server-scripting and all, GoDaddy hosting is not for you.

It was a wasted experiment. But I hope the $25 Adwords credit sums it up

GoDaddy Sucks !

* web hosting search is on again, any suggestions welcome

Photography from my low quality cam. Effects thanks to Paint.net, freeware image editor.

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Embrassing event on last year’s Fifa World cup was, the head-butt by Zinedine Zidane on the Final. He got provoked by Italian players, while the game was on a tie and 10 minutes left to be finished. French star player, Zidane’s response resulted in a sent off for violent conduct with a Redcard, too bad - it was also the final game of his career. Finally French lost the Worldcup to Italians, in a penalty kick shootout.

Well, I hoped French would have won that game. Italy defender Marco Materazzi finally revealed what he said in the World Cup final that provoked the Zinedine Zidane to respond with a head-butt. “I prefer the whore that is your sister” Materazzi wrote in his to-be released autobiography, according to Italian news reports Saturday.

Edited: Thanks to galleblogger

link: True Colors by Dillistic

A short clip on the media, and some negative impacts it brings (anorexia etc.)
[No Copyright infringement intended]

says Dillistic, btw awesome clip

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, Seventh and the final book of the Harry Potter series written by J.K.Rowling, is to be released on July 21st. So young wizard Harry returns to fight ‘He who shouldn’t be named’, for the finale. Unresolved plot elements from previous books and speculations of deaths of few major charachters by Author herself has already made topcharts with pre-orders. Anyway it would be a best seller as the other books of the series.

While there has been a buzz around ‘magical world’, about novel’s plot being leaked by a hacker from an employee at Bloomsbury publishing. Summary of the plot has been published on a mailing list, which was done with the intention of spoiling the intrest on the upcoming book.

If you’re fan, you have two options, Pre-order Harry potter and the Deathly Hollows online Or Read the leaked story. Shit, I saw who’s gonna die on the next book, Curiosity kills the cat?

Happy Triple 7’s everyone!

7th June of 2007,  today (tipped by sis) :D

And Thanks to Kottu.org and Achcharu.org for accepting my site to their blog catalog!

just came across this webmaster rap or poem or watever

Created by Keniki of http://www.keniki.com

As I walk through the valley of the shadow of search
Take a look at my site and realise the hurt
Cause I’ve been hijacked and spammed so long that
Even my mamma thinks that my mind is gone
But I ain’t never crossed a spammer that didn’t deserve it
Me be treated like a punk, you know that’s unheard of
You better watch how you posting, and where you blogging
cause if you act like a fool and say something mental
Even your home page might go supplemental
I’m the kinda webmaster that wants my site to be liked
On my knees in the night, saying prayers in the street light 

They been spending most their lives living in the spammer’s paradise
We keep spending most our lives living in the spammer’s paradise

Look at the situation, they got me facing
I can’t live a normal life, I was raised by the Serps

So I gotta be down with the seo team
Too much surfing got me chasing dreams

I’m a noneducated fool with money on my mind
Get my page rank 10 and a gleam in my eye
I’m a loped out webmaster set trippin banger
And my home page is down so don’t arouse my anger … fool
Penalisation ain’t nothing but a heartbeat away
I’m living life do or die, what can I say
I’m serp result 23 now but will I live to see more
The way things is going I don’t know

Tell me why are we so blind to see
That the ones we hurt are you and me.

They been spending most their lives living in the spammer’s paradise
We keep spending most our lives living in the spammer’s paradise

Power and the money, money and the power
Minute after minute, hour after hour
Everybody’s spamming but half of them ain’t looking
What’s going on in the search engine, but I don’t know what’s cloaking
They say I’ve got to learn but nobody’s here to teach me
If they can’t understand it, how can they reach me

I guess they can’t
I guess they won’t
I guess they front
That’s why I know my site is out of luck … fool

They been spending most their lives living in the spammer’s paradise
We keep spending most our lives living in the spammer’’s paradise

Tell me why are we so blind to see
That the ones we hurt are you and me.
Tell me why are we so blind to see
That the ones we hurt are you and me.

Starring America’s most favorite family.

Phew!

 After long absence, am back to blog……..

Bought a new PC…..

Pentium D 920 2.8Ghz
Gigabyte Ga-945Gm-S2
Kingston 512mb -533mhz
Galaxy 7600GS 512mb -500/800mhz
Philips 107s RF monitor
Realtek 7.1 Azalia HD audio
Sony DRU-820A Dvd-Rw
Sony Dvd-Rom
Hitachi 160Gb with NCQ,16mb cache
450w casing