I moved my websites to Site5 today because they had a killer deal on their multisite hosting. I have 5 or 6 full site configs to work with instead of the common shared server setup of domains as subdirs off the root.
It rocks. However my credit card was charged the full price instead of the promotional package, so I’ve sent an email and left a voice mail. The support is definitely not on par with mediatemple but the server config is better.
I’ve cancelled my account with mediatemple and I’m pulling down my gallery/dump so hopefully tomorrow I’ll be refunded the balance on the account but it’ll probably happen next week.
Update: Site5 refunded the charge and applied the proper pricing around noon so the response time isn’t blazing, but it’s not bad either.
I picked this beauty up at Trev’s headshop lastnight, along with some flavored papers. It came with that pimp case in the background for $20. It might have the smoothest draw out of all the bongs I’ve owned.
Yesterday afternoon when Ken got around to his last task of the day I told him to not do it. Paul had requested he create a banner rotator that doesn’t rotate, scroll or do much other than waste dev time. This is a basic breakdown of what he wanted: X banners display; if >X then shuffle their position.
Wtf. I mean seriously. wtf.
When I saw that Ken was actually assigned this useless idea/concept/whatever I simply loaded our web reports (I run the logs, and it seems only I really look at the stats) and lo and behold; no one looks at any of the pages with heavy advertising for more than a minute. It’s literally a quick scan for content and click thru to the next page for the details.
This isn’t news to me. It’s common sense. Not one of our users will be on a page long enough for a banner to shuffle because that’d take 5-10mins to display them all; which would mean we’d be lying to our advertising clients about their banners being seen on screen.
Worst idea of ’06 I think.
I wonder if I’ll get in trouble for it. Ken left early yesterday because he had nothing else to do.
Today I completed setting up the fluval 205 filter, put a black background on the tank, set the flow from the sweeping powerhead to be very low and adding a nice pulsing xenia stalk. The tank looks pretty sick. I can’t wait for my green carpet anemone to come in.
