Visiting this blog produces the following (censored) adult content:

I’ve blurred out the screenshot–I almost want to blur out the text as well–and I’ll leave the rest to your imagination. I certainly am not going to link to that here. But, there’s a point I want to make. I’m not offended by running across this kind of adult-content, just surprised. Many more would be outraged. Certainly, either reaction is a bad one for Wordpress.com, who need to come up with an automatic rating suggestion system that can at least try to flag adult content and display an “adults only” tag near listings with suspect blogs. The same could be said for a splog, etc.

• 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.