Wordpress.com Adult Blogs
There’s nothing in the terms of service that I can see that would prohibit you from running an adult-themed blog on Wordpress.com, but it seems a little bit distasteful to feature blogs with adult content on the front page. The one I ran into today wasn’t popular enough to eclipse Robert Scoble, but what if it were powered by Fark or SA, who regularly link to distasteful adult content? Then we’d have an interesting problem.
New Dedicated Hosting
Since 1and1 threw me off their servers for using too much CPU, and Dreamhost is beginning to complain that I’m using about 5 to 6 times their daily limit of 1 cpu-hour, I purchased a dedicated server hosting package from Cari.net, which seemed to have the best prices around–their $200 setup fee notwithstanding. For $79 / month I’m getting the following specs:
- P4 32bit 3 GZ w/ 2MB L1 and w/o HT
- 1 GB DDR400 RAM
- 160 GB SATA
- 1.2 TB Bandwidth
- 4 MB/s sustained on 100Mbs Ethernet
- Fedora Core 4 Linux and Plesk
The specs are pretty sweet–I’m particularily happy about the 1 GB of RAM. If I were buying a server, I’d go for dual Xeons or Opterons, but for my little website this should be more than enough. I’m also going to be rolling out a new mega-site in the next month or so, as well as a total upgrade to this old, tired theme. Both of these will be lightning fast. And, since I’ll be consuming only my server’s CPU, I can probably turn off caching and enjoya more responsive Wordpress installation.
Now, this isn’t anything against Dreamhost, which rocks for small websites. Currently they’re out of dedicated servers, so I have to look somewhere else. MediaTemple was too expensive for a real rack, and their virtual server offerings were too vague for my taste about how many users per dual-xeon system there were.