dreamhost offers dedicated servers, and they are a pretty well known quantity.

Rackspace has been around a long time.

If you can make do with VPS, everyone I know says Linode is great.

My org's web IT guy says that Hosted Solutions is pretty good. WRAL, a local news station, uses them. Apparently they got eaten by Windstream a while ago, but I don't think that's affected their services. [link]

We won this is a test to see if Siri can understand what I say so I can speak my actual post and set of typing it.

Huh. Not too bad.

eta: "We won" should be "Hello everyone."

"and set of" should be "instead of."

What's Dreamhost like, valuewise? I default to them for my site that makes money, because they're reliable.

Polgara hosts important stuff with them, and when they got hacked she was hit pretty hard with stuff getting infected so she was thinking of moving, and they ended up cleaning up her shit for free.

I use Dreamhost for 1 Wordpress.org site and it's, I think, $69 a year? And I have never had a single problem with it.

ALSO!!

Guys, I have a new phone! Free upgrade day is THE BEST day! Samsung Galaxy S and it is such a smartphone. I LOVE IT LIKE CAKE already.

Dreamhost dedicated server prices

$99 a month seems in the ballpark for a dedicated server.

That said, I think Amazon Web Services is the way to go for what shrift wants to do. That way they'd only pay for what they use and they wouldn't have to maintain anything in between test runs.

shrift I can try to help you get connected to your first ec2 instancing, if you like. I've done it a couple of times, it's finicky but not impossible.

I can't believe I sat on updating from 802.11b this long. JESUS. Even though I only have a couple gigabit devices on my network, pretty much everything else is 100BaseT. No matter if the bottleneck is the internet connection, I'm doing a reasonable amount of communication between the various other devices *anyway*, and it's not like a little crack cocaine ever hurt anyone.

My brain likes to think the wireless is faster, and you know what? Why tell it different? No harm, no foul.

Anyway. Anyone on T-Mobile get regular messages telling you to restart your phone? My phone is complaining I haven't turned it off since February 28th, and that it should be restarted for optimum performance. Which, whatevs, except this comes up as an alert with an exclamation point and everything, which I'd really rather they reserve for something of import. Fine, I'll restart the damned phone to make it go away, but does anyone know of any other way (outside of rooting) to make it stop doing pointless stuff like that?

Nope.

Pretty much the only time I turn it off is if I drop it on the floor and the battery pops out.

$99 a month seems in the ballpark for a dedicated server.

To host a website, I think that's standard, but I'm not sure it'll suit my needs. I need something that I can install VMWare on and run some tests 24/7, while others would be intermittent. This is why I'm a little dubious about EC2 as a solution.

Now I'm waiting for Rackspace to call me back.

Bad battery life? All those free apps could be to blame

When I see the word "free" I'm always wondering what the catch is. Maybe this is it: Researchers at Purdue University have conducted a study in conjunction with Microsoft that showed in some cases up to 75% of an app's total energy consumption was spent on locating and powering up the app's third party advertising.