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From what I know, this is totally unethical in the first place and kinda like cheating clients money if you provide ads service to them. Beside that, TOS of many ads provider (Google, Yahoo and etc) prohabit this kind of activity. Not only the Google Account of that user (who run the ads) will be banned but all the domains associate with the account as well.

I just have one comment for this kind of thing: it’s cheating!

Is GoGrid right for me?

First of all, let me say this: Technical knowledge is required to get started with GoGrid. Unlike Media Temple grid service or Mosso Cloud, GoGrid is not sign-up and ready-to-go service. It requires server administration experience (Windows or Linux). So if you can’t bother yourself with command line, compiling and installing server stuffs, you better go get hosting service from Mosso or Media Temple. In the future, it will be good to see GoGrid server images come preinstalled with Plesk or Cpanel.

Budget wise,  GoGrid is neither expensive or cheap but I would say affordable if you choose the pre-paid plan option. Every GoGrid account comes with 10GB free cloud storage which is still useless for the time being for not having API or CDN (Content Delivery Network) support.

GoGrid vs the rest

Although GoGrid compares itself with Amazon EC2, I don’t think there is a need for comparison. Amazon EC2 is like geek level cloud service which requires a lot of technical expertise while GoGrid is like amateur-level and of course Mosso is the novice level with main intention of reselling hosting. Your existing application will be working without any problem on GoGrid and Mosso while tweaks are needed to be hosted on EC2. There is still one more uber-geek level cloud hosting environment called 3Tera but I am not going into that today, maybe perhaps another post for that.

Every GoGrid Cloud comes with storage (min 30GB) and free inbound data transfer (your uploads traffic to server is free) , generous amount of standard IP addresses and of course the crown jewel of the GoGrid, Free F5 Load Balancing. My only complaint is limited choice of server images and lack of proper compilation of preinstalled software. E.g. PHP in LAMP image is compiled without MySQL support.

Support wise, GoGrid technical support is a bit confusing and takes relatively long sometimes to response. They do not seem to have 24/7 support (although the website stated 24/7 support but I always have to wait around 5-7 hours) which is a bit problematic for customers from other timezones like me. Yet, their support personnel know what they are doing and have sound technical expertise. Even better, if you have any problem, just shout it out lound on Twitter and Michael will do his best in solving or at least assisting with the problem. Beside support, Wiki is still building up and need long way to go (Dreamhost Wiki is the best support Wiki ever!) and froum is kinda dead.

To make it short, manging a GoGrid cloud is like managing a unmanaged dedicated server. You have fully control of the server and of course its problem as well.

In my next article, I will write walkthrough guide for setting up LAMP and RoR cloud with GoGrid.

Here’s a new release of $10 TLD called .TEL  (you can start registering in around March) which you can’t host it on your own server. Yes, it may sounds crazy but that’s the fact. Regardless of domain register that you bought the domain, it will be hosted by a company called Telnic and only your name, contact information, location (GoogleMap link) and a URL to your website. Yes, that’s it without any images or logo of your company and with a fixed template provided by mighty Telnic. What a f* up idea, isn’t it?

FYI: You can check out demo of how your .tel site will look like here and here .

Most of the new TLDs introduced by ICANN are just failure (except maybe .mobi) and they are going to allow companies (with trademarks) to register their own TLD (and I suppose with their own policies). 

Nobody in this world cares about any other TLDs except .com/net/org/gov/edu. Instead of expanding the lists of TLDs, they should set stricter rules and regulations for registration and management (like the restriction they have for .gov and .edu). Lots of people out there own several domains (several mean from 10 - 10,000 domains) without actually utilizing most of them (90% are just under parking-page). I myself own several dozens domain (not as a mean for investment but to protect some of my ideal name). 

ICANN seriously needs to revamp their stands on domain names as well as their policies. Instead of creating new TLDs, do a spring-cleaning of domains that are not in used or just kept for investment purposes.

It started out to compete directly with Twitter, but failed to do so and just bought over by Six Apart (a company that played around with OpenSource) for unknown sum (I have checked for every sources on Twitter and blogs and still no clue on it).

Pownce has not done very bad job, they started the rise of Adobe AIR’s application by developing desktop version of Pownce using AIR. Apart from that, everything else has failed - in terms of userbase (not much people know what the hell is Pownce although they do know Twitter) and service performance (Twitter suffers several performance issues cos their userbase is HUGE but Pownce suffers as well although they have very limited userbase and their storage is outsourced to Amazon’s S3).

For me, although there were and still are many micro-blogging services out there, I still prefer Twitter.

Prior to 2.2, whenever you do an update on installed app, it will trigger a new app icon followed by downloading and installation after that the new app icon will be merged with the existing app icon. In 2.2, updating an app does not follow that process anymore instead it will just do over the top of existing app.

On top of that, 2.2 makes my phones more responsive and faster, although how I wish it has copy/paste feature…but I guess Apple is reinventing it

Well, above is sneak peek of my upcoming WordPress theme which is currently in the process. If everything goes well, I will be probably releasing it by next coming week. Main intention is to replaced Diana, but since the color scheme is different from the Diana, I am not too sure whether I should release it as another new theme and continue improve Diana along side, or totally replace Diana with this.

Features of the theme

• Usage of WordPress’s custom field (for the image in featured posts which will be auto rotating)
• Two types of theme (one for using as CMS and another one for blog)
• Support for several plugins out-of-the-box (lifestream, cforms, related/recent/popular posts and twitter-tools)
• Widgets support
• Dynamic Menu Highlighting (Unlike current Diana, only top level categories and pages will be displayed on the navigation)
• Support for Version 2.7 (I will be doing the development on 2.7 and will do cross-testing with 2.6 as well)
• No support for IE6 and below

I am totally clueless why in the world ICANN post every details of the domain owner on the WHOIS record. I do not mind my email address from appearing there but clearly not my every other details such as addresses and phone number. So the only solution, buy a domain privacy service at around $10 to prevent my details from appearing. It should be a FREE service available to all the domain owners with option to switch on/off the listing of details.

Although lots of people talk about online privacy now a day (especially on Google and all the various social network), not many has voiced out about the domain privacy.

To my surprise, somebody from 9rules (Tyme White) actually picked up my twit and blogged about it with a reply to why 9rules does not enable summary for the feeds. The points that Tyme mentioned are logical but I still think it is a ploy by 9rules to get readers to actually visit the site instead of just browsing the articles with feed readers.

Regarding excerpt, site like mine offer full article via feeds (both image and text) so I do not think an excerpt is necessary.