I’ve recently been working on a new OSS project, and it’s finally been released on the phux Development forums. As it’s open source, it will remain free and the community has full access to modify it as they wish. If you do modify it, we ask that you post the mod’s in our modifications forum so that other users can have the chance to use it if they want.
Public modifications that are deemed fit by the community and the phux dev team, may be added to the phux releases (granted that the publisher gives us permission). Enjoy, learn and share.
Link: http://forum.phux.org/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=20
Open sourcing the world, one app at a time.
~Nito @ phux Development
Sorry about the downtime. After about 12 hours of the site being down, it finally picked up the new DNS servers. We decided to change hosting companies, after our websites were getting throttled for hours, leaving visitors getting only half loaded pages, or pages not loading at all. Not good. So, after a couple of days of combing through web hosts, we’ve come to HostGator with the hopes of a better tomorrow.
Now, for those who don’t know, we were previously with HostMonster. They implemented CPU Throttling on their servers. They say this is for the better good of all accounts. The real reason for this? It’s likely that due to the economy (if you look at the time-line, it makes sense) they implemented a way to throttle the connections to every website across the map, to stop from “over-using” their bandwidth, which in their own writing, is unlimited. Unlimited at what cost? The cost of not having a usable website for an average of 7% of the month. This is a HUGE hit to take, for anyone.
Greedy bastards, pure and simple. And their excuses when you ask why your website is being throttled so much? “Your (As in you, the customer) scripts are faulty” or “You’re calling too many sql queries” <–WTF?! Now, I tested this with a single static pages website. No sql queries, no php. Just simple html, with css, images and some text. It was throttled for an average of 1.8 minutes every 3 hours. Total time up: ~2 days. Total hits: 7… Seven hits, no sql, no php, and it was throttled.. Seriously? All I have to say, is that if you plan on going with HostMonster, make sure you’re ready to have a lot of unexpected downtime.
Just wanted to wish all my readers a happy 4th of July before it’s over. We spent the weekend up in the Thousand Islands. A few fireworks Saturday night, but nothing worth spending the night outside to watch. The fireworks here in Rochester are still going off, and I assume they will be for the next week or so as usual.
Anyways, hope every one is having a safe and fun weekend, because I know I sure did. =)
