I am pretty sure I get exactly 0 automated bot spams. The only spam I get is human spam. I don’t use any form of captcha anywhere. How do I do this? First off, I changed the comment form to not even use recognizable field names. Second, I added dummy fields and if they are filled in the comment is blocked. One uses a similar name to one of the default field names. I still moderate comments and I will edit them if part is spam and another is not. I even renamed the comment post file (Mainly to prevent wordpress updates from overwriting it)
Nofollow is not used in the url box. It did no good anyway so what’s the point? Make a worthwhile comment on my blog and you can have 1 dofollow link. Links within the comment are still nofollow.
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http://durl.tk/4 December 29th, 2009
Paradox Servers has continued to be the best web host I have used. Today I was having an issue adding a cron job and I posted about the issue on their forum and in 16 minutes the issue was fixed. How many free hosts have such a short response time? On one of my previous web hosts the staff could not even figure out what I was asking when I needed help.
If you look in my footer you will see the time it took to generate this page and the 15 minute load average of their server. When I did a download test right after the new server was up I hit the download limit of my home internet connection. Download time of my homepage is 1.15 seconds on a 768 Kbps connection. (Really 96 kilobytes, ISP’s like to show kilobits which are 1/8 of a kilobyte)
Firebug extension showing the download time of my homepage
0.5 second load time from Google Webmaster Tools
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http://durl.tk/3 December 28th, 2009
Wordpress seems to skip post id’s which is a little weird, I’m having to make a new post, leave the Wordpress new post and edit the id in MySQL and then publish it for a lower post id. This makes for a shorter short link
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http://durl.tk/2 December 28th, 2009
I like DirectAdmin better than cPanel. With DirectAdmin I can limit the bandwidth of a second domain without being a reseller. That is useful for something like my image site where I don’t have any restrictions on the sites allowed to use the images. Parked domains work better on DirectAdmin. On cPanel I never figured out how to add a parked domain on an add on domain without making the parked domain an add on domain with the same document root as the domain I wanted to park it on.
DirectAdmin is just simpler to figure out than cPanel was. There are still a little small things that I am a little confused about like the fact that you have to be in a domain’s settings to get to the main account settings. If you want free DirectAdmin hosting you can use Faster Host.
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http://durl.tk/1 December 28th, 2009
After a long hunt for a decent web hosting service I think I finally found it. Paradox Servers has been the fastest free web host I have found.
Above is a Google Webmasters Tools screenshot showing the speed of dmmcintyre3.co.cc. The average page load time was 0.8 seconds and faster than 91% of sites. Ok, it is 3 days old as of the time of this writing but it’s still great. They are even getting a new server soon (It’s on the way to the datacenter currently) so most likely they will get even faster! On the uptime front they had very little downtime in November when I switched to them from a slow host. There has only been one case of downtime. My site and paradoxservers.net were showing a 500 internal server error and it lasted less than 30 minutes. I’m not sure how long it really was because 30 min was the time between my uptime monitoring service’s checks. I know it was less though. They had not been open more than 10 days when this happened so they could have been just configuring something. I have not had any trouble since. The owner even will let you have higher limits if needed. I once asked for more parked domains and then got them for free. Support has been excellent. Overall I would rate this host 10/10
Part 2
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http://durl.tk/219 December 9th, 2009
