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Remember…
Remember kids, don’t just copy and paste code/wordpress tags from somewhere, more often than not it has typos and/or replaced characters.
Case in point: <!–nextpage–>
Spent over 30 minutes around the darn thing yesterday, until I just said “Fuck it!”, just to figure out that, I’ll hazard a guess, the post editor of the website I copied the darn tag from had replaced characters…by other characters that (if you’re distracted, not really thinking about it or near-sighted) look exactly the same.
Another day…is today it seems
Last post I mentioned a motherboard that died an interesting death, it wasn’t that interesting, just kinda funny.
But first the Radeon 9200 did not start working just by changing the capacitor. I had it on a box for over a year, so I didn’t quite remember the problem it had, it was the good old garbled output that normally means something on the ram/gpu went apeshit. Pity.
The story on the motherboard goes like this (bullet point list edition):
- Watching some asian (either Japanese or South Korean, don’t remember) horror film using the 2nd PC.
- Suddenly a high pitched noise enters my brain, one of those high pitch noises that are high pitched enough to take quite a few seconds to get the direction.
- As I finally get it’s coming from the 2nd pc, I approach it and…
- As I’m pressing the power button to turn it off, it turns off by itself.
Aaaannnnddddd….it’s dead. (read that with the voice of the South Park bank guy)
Teh 2nd box
So, some 3 years ago I posted about digging up some old computer parts out of boxes, which resulted on a Pentium 3 with 192MB of RAM that constantly crashed.
This is technically old news, but somewhere in 2012 I ended up getting a nice computer for free (well, nice for a 2nd box for some torrenting and whatnot), a Pentium 4 1.7GHz with 512MB of RAM. (yeah, socket 423 and Rambus, can’t really upgrade it at an acceptable cost for the performance gain)
To be honest it was good enough for most of my late night browsing and xvid movie/anime watching.
That is until the old Radeon 9200 died.
And now…
…I feel like an idiot.
So I used dot.tk and now am using eu.org (which I found after much search), but it never occurred to me to use FreeDNS ( http://freedns.afraid.org , where I have an account ever since the dinosaurs left the earth, or about 2003/2004), for some reason I didn’t even remember them.
Until today I went to check my subdomain that links to my dynamic ip and noticed this: “A”
“Waiddaminute…A records mean I can just configure it to my webserver ip, innit?”, followed by “Oh, see there’s CNAME, NS and all the others. Let me give it a try.”
vortex69.qc.to A 144.76.???.???
Go to cPanel on the server, add vortex69.qc.to as a domain, and…fucking works.
Although as a strictly free solution it’s more limited than, say, ClouDNS + eu.org, as you can use only 5 hostnames on a free account (ClouDNS is unlimited records and 3 domains), on the plus side it’s more centralized, also easier and faster to get to work (no much waiting for DNS to propagate) and very importantly, it has one less dot (yes, I once found a free web host that pretty much told me my eu.org sub-domain was invalid, too many dots, it was correct of course but was interestingly blunt about it).
(and speaking of that I found a free web host that forbids you from simply pointing an A record to their server, first time I’ve seen that honestly)
Not so high value anymore, bitches?
So, today, 15/Apr/2014, just jestingly I went to dot.tk and tried to re-register my old domain “vortex69.tk” and…
I found I could register it, for free…pretty much exactly one month after I stopped using them when my domain was taken from me without warning because it contained words deemed to be “high value” and so I should pay for the privilege (click to read about the end of my use of dot.tk, which I had used for 3 years)
So, now I could register it…
The strange world of freewebhosting.
It’s an intriguing ‘industry’ when you start looking at it.
And I don’t mean on the “no such thing as free lunch” (even then, with current CPU power and cheap-ish RAM and HDD space, you can host thousands of “1GB free” web hosting accounts in a single server without much problem and at a pretty low cost), I mean of the literally hundreds of ‘companies’ offering free web hosting, a good bunch of them are just one company (heck, we can probably trace 70% of them to just 5 or 6 companies).
Obviously they offer the same exact pack, under different names, on the same exact servers, the really funny thing is: sometimes they get wildly different reviews.
And this post is not about any of that. This is about my search for the “perfect free web host”.
Mysteries of the universe
One of those mysteries is how the heck does my current host (a free host, doesn’t matter for now, I’ll praise them if things keep going OK) measure CPU usage.
Because in cPanel the CPU usage meter is like this:
CPU Usage 0 bytes / 100 MB
CPU usage measured in MB, now there’s something new.
And their bandwidth meter doesn’t work.
Also kind of funny was a free host that I used before that allowed 2 add-on domains, but only one sub domain. (as you may, or may not know cPanel uses one sub domain per add-domain and AFAIK there’s no way to circumvent it)
LOL
Sometimes (very rarely) there’s something in the video game world that makes me laugh.
I didn’t laugh at Bus Simulator (which I played), or Farming Simulator (which I also played, 2011 and 2013) or Euro Truck Simulator 2 (I’ve been playing truck simulators since…well, since Hard Truck 2)
But Goat Simulator made me laugh, but not because I find it ridiculous. (I’m 27, my first games were on a NES, games with far-fetched base ideas are what gaming was all about before 2000)