It’s all about length baby…
well, length of time really.
I’m about to do that geeky penis-waving thing again (well, as a woman, it’s an e-penis at least).
So, here we go:
This one’s the length of time I’ve been connected to the Internet. I had the pleasure of calling my ISP the other day to find out whether the fact that my web page (hosted overseas) is taking TWENTY FRICKEN MINUTES TO LOAD GODDAMNIT was an ISP issue, before I once again attempted to tear my webhost, Dreamhost a new one. The reason I say it’s a pleasure to call my ISP is because it really is! One, because they answer my call RIGHT AWAY, no waiting and two, because the people you speak to are so damn nice and helpful, but, as usual, I digress. Anyway, the young fellow I got on the line was quite impressed with the length of my connection. Perhaps it’s a male thing. Oh, and by the way, the problem is with my webhost, not Westnet, my ISP, who I still love despite the fact they just jacked up their prices enough to make me want to heave.
and my main e-penis wave belongs, of course, to my non-windows box (I heart linux):
Yes, viewers, my linux box has been up for 283, count them, 283 days.
I’m a proud old geek wanna-be, yes indeed.
Dreamhost, ISP, uptime. linux, Westnet 
Michael Specht wrote,
Most geeks would love for their box to stay up for that long!
Link | September 13th, 2006 at 7:22 pm
Tone wrote,
I’m having the same issues with dreamhost.
Sadly, they’ve been hit with problem after problem (huge issues… things totally outside of anyones control). Fires, city wide power outages, the fact that myspace.com is in the same building, all contribute.
Of course, when the hosting only costs 26 cents per day (US), I’m pretty patient.
Link | September 16th, 2006 at 3:56 am
Tone wrote,
Double Comment!! *w00t!*
Dreamhost claims to have finally fixed the server and network issues. To celebrate, they doubled your bandwidth (you now start with 2TB per month), and they multiplied the starting disk space x10 (so 200GB to start).
Heh… I went from 10% usage on the disk space to less than 1%. Time to upload all the old lady porn for my friends in the middle east!!
Link | October 4th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
The Grumpy One wrote,
LOL
You realised the damn words you typed will only bring MORE of the perverted arseholes here right?
Anyhow, I’m pretty unimpressed with Dreamhost, as, although they claim to have fixed the problems, there’s times that my site is so. damn. slow. I get pissed because I may as well have hosted it here at home on a 256k up-link. That 256k up-link is about to change though, as although I LOVE my ISP, I’m seriously considering moving for ADSL2 speeds. 1.5meg downloads just aren’t fast enough for me any more, and the increased up-link speeds will be a bonus too!
Link | October 4th, 2006 at 5:14 pm
Tone wrote,
I’ve been cranky with Dreamhost too, but the fact that I don’t have to keep those damn Brazilian script kiddies outa my box tempers the anger quite a bit.
As for the DSL hookup… that would so rock! I have a 1.5MB/s down, 1MB/s up connection. I thought about going to cable, but the upload speeds are slower, and when you’re a gamer (and I am), upload is just as important as download… expecially when there are 4 of us playing on the same server.
And now, the keywords (for google) :-)
Old
Lady
Hardcore
Porn
hehe…
Link | October 5th, 2006 at 1:29 am