If you are creating a website for yourself or your business and you are trying to determine which web hosting provider to choose to host your site, you may wish that you could get a comprehensive listing of web hosts along with their services, prices, and contact information. Fortunately, there are such references: web hosting [...]
Is It Reasonable To Offer 1 Terabyte of Storage As A File Hoster?
Offering the biggest storage capacities of all the file hosts on the Internet will surely drive some traffic to a file hoster’s website. Oosah did just that with the announcement that they would offer 1 Terabyte – that is 1024 Gigabytes – to everyone signing up for their file hosting service. And while they surely [...]
Rapidshare Files
Rapidshare is still one of the most popular file hosting solutions on the Internet although their latest changes to the system have angered many long time users of the service. The reduction of the daily download quota for Rapidshare premium users and the speed decrease for free users are the two main points that have [...]
Stay Away From Dreamhost
The following article explains why it is a good idea to research potential web hosting companies before making business with them. This is a real story. You might have noticed that the Grand Effect toolbar spilled out 404 errors. I removed the toolbar from top after checking with the main website to find out that [...]
What’s wrong with those Rapidshare Captchas ?
Rapidshare have implemented a new captcha system a while ago that was most likely be added to fight all the automatic downloaders that were able to fill out the captcha for the user to automate the download process. The new captcha however turns out to be harder to beat. Not only for computer scripts though [...]
Megaupload bypass country limit
Megaupload is a file hoster just like Rapidshare that has restrictions set in place for guests that are downloading files from their website. Everyone who wants to download a file from Megaupload has to wait a certain time before they can start the download. Another restriction is a so called country limit. If the maximum number of downloaders from a specific country has been reached all others from that country will have to wait until the amount of downloaders drops below that figure.
Who is hosting ghacks ?
I recently received some emails asking about the kind of hosting that I was using for ghacks.net and I decided that it would be a nice idea to write about it in an article. Ghacks is running on a dedicated server provided by the German company Hetzner with the following details: AMD Athlon 64 3700+ cpu, 2 GB DDR 400 Ram, 2x 160 GB SATA hard drives, unlimited traffic and Suse 10.0 as its operating system.
Ten Video Sharing Services Compared
Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo from dvguru.com took a look at ten video sharing services. He did so by uploading a 15 megabyte testfile to each service and check each service for video quality, site interface, community features, and functionality. The ten services that have been tested are Eyespot, Google Video, Grouper, Jumpcut, Ourmedia, Revver, Videoegg, Vimeo, Vsocial and YouTube. Every service has his own little paragraph that gives answers to some common actions like Interface, Editing and Sharing.