Jumpdomain, who hosts my personal domain, finally struck out. I’m not picky, but if I do have a problem, I like to have it acknowledged and fixed, either in a timely manner or at all. Unfortunately, there’s not another hosting company at-bat, so I’m scouting for a big stick to add to the roster.

Requirements aren’t much:
• *nix-based
• shell/ftp accounts
• web-based control panel for everything possible
• nice OSS things pre-installed (eg wordpress and phpnuke)
• blog-enabled
• unimpeachable uptime and support
• IMAP & POP mail w/ large numbers in front; mailing lists
• Bonuses for big disk and big bandwidth
• Whatever other crap they throw in for everybody else

If you want to share the name of a star in your stable, leave a comment below or fire me a pitch.

I have my eye on Dreamhost.

March 28th, 2005 | Blogosphere, Legal, Miscellaneous | 2 comments

Thanks to The Reasonable Man, I’ve added a Terms of Service for this blog.

No, I’m not paranoid. I just like to experiment.

There’s only two reasons I’m doing so. First, to protect myself from you if you go after me (which wasn’t what prompted this in the first place, btw). Second, to give me a legal basis for pursuing spammers (why I went a-huntin’ for TOS). Otherwise, you can chill. Get into the extended entry for more hot legalese action.

For those more paranoid, here are the parts regarding your privacy, what you cannot post, and who owns what you post. Basically, you have no privacy, you can’t post anything illegal, and I have the right to publish what you post under my Creative Commons license. Everything else is boilerplate.
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March 24th, 2005 | Law, Miscellaneous, Spam | 11 comments