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(Amateur astronomy photo of the day)
The moon[^] complete with blurs of several very fast moving spacecraft  (actually I think insects...)
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Thanks! Awe inspiring!
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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First site I go to when I get in. Not every day is a gem (for me, anyway) but some are beyond spectacular or just plain interesting. Glad you like.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Yeah, big deal, like we havent seen the Sun before... 
Cool video though
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Today I learned the sun actually rotates.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what is used to.
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And it's round too, not flat.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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mark merrens wrote: The Sun Rotating [^].
Noooooooo! Don't tell me the sun rotates. 
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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I'm considering getting one of them thar new fangled domain thingies.
I have several possible names [all cheap  ] and I am now at the next stage of working out what to do.
I will need a host - no way will I run a server here 24/7 to keep the hordes satisfied. I would like to be able to choose exactly how I set things up. My idea is a simple personal site with a blog. I want to be have full control of what technology it runs, probably straight to DVD stuff first, RoR or ASP [I have yet to settle which] but I want the option to change things as I see fit. Then I would like to be able to have e-mail that I can access from any where - so a web portal is good as well as having it on my phone and desktop.
My web knowledge to date is mostly as a user. I know some of you guys and gals even make money from it, so what would be a good starting place for me?
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I use Arvixe[^] - they are pretty cheap, and I haven't had any real problems. The tech support isn't bad either.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I had tons of issues with Arvixe, so I switched to HostGator[^]
Stephane
"Facebook is like prison - sitting, wasting time, writing on walls and being poked by people you don't even know."
www.exotk.org
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Arvixe has its moments, but generally OK, and cheap as chips.
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Arvixe[^], methinks. As do several others.
/ravi
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I would also say Arvixe are okay.
However, keep your domain name/s registered elsewhere: I use Network Solutions or Go-Daddy (cheap).
Best not to keep all your eggs in a single basket.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Whatever you do, stay away from Arvixe. It's used mostly by hackers and sheep ...
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"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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I use EvoHosting here in the uk.
A basic package is less then the electricity you'd need to run from home.
They've never let me down once in four years.
Basic package includes free DN, a proper one at that(I have a dotcom), ftp server, website, three domain emails(for which you can change the names/passwords in about a minute.
All accessed through cPanel, and 10G bandwidth, hosted on StarScreamer and Linux.
Excellent host.
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I've tried quite a few. Finally settled on Rackspace for email hosting, GoDaddy for domains (have a good DNS management tool) and Azure for hosting web servers (they host VMs with Windows Server and Linux at reasonable prices).
I haven't found a single company that does everything well though for a reasonable price.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I use Servage.net They give unlimited space with unlimited bandwidth. They have lot of add on installer scripts for blogs, forums, polls, etc. They also give you 1 free domain name. and price is pretty cheap. Look at their website, you will like it for sure.
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I've been using risingnet/[^] for my webspace and an ircshell for the last year or so. Never had any problems; but because what I'm running is more HHTPfiledump than actual site the odds of my noticing anything shorter than a week outage on the web hosting are slim. I'd notice shell problems right away and the longest outages I've had were a pair that were several hours long outside of normal business hours.
Edit: Looked at their page, and they've added 1 click installers for some generic webapps. The reduced setup effort might get me to install a proper photo gallery and a blog I never post on at some point...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I have actually used JustHost. I have had great customer service from them, never had any real issues, set up quite a few domains with them over the years. Might not be as cheap as some of the ones mentioned here, but a good balance between service and price imho.
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My setup is DomainReg + hosting through hostgator
wordpress blog installation is a 1-click setup through them, and is working very well for me. If you want to have complete control you can get dedicated server hosting. I use the shared hosting and it's totally adequate.
For e-mail I have hostgator forward all my e-mail to my @outlook.com account and have an alias set up there which is my hostgator-fielded e-mail address. Therefore I have a custom domain, but get to read & send mail via outlook.com and also take advantage of their spam handling, address book, etc. It's a great set up if you've got Windows 8 and/or Windows Phone to tie the whole thing together.
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I've been using GoDaddy for several years. They give you several gigabytes of web space and more bandwidth than I've ever used (for a personal site) along with 100 MB of e-mail space (you can buy more) and up to 99 e-mail accounts in that space. You can have MySQL, MS Access, and MS SQL Server databases. I use the ASP/ASP.NET support, but I think they support PHP as well.
They'll do the domain search and set up for you with only a nominal charge.
I've had no major complaints about them. Their uptime is pretty good, I had a weather app that was pumping data from my backyard weather gauges to the SQL Server data base once a minute 24/7/365 and it would report connection problems for about 2-3 minutes in the middle of the night, but aside from that, it worked fine for rest of the time for the few years I was doing that.
Their user interface can be a bit wonky in that it is not intuitively obvious how to navigate it. It is geared to sales, so you might find yourself dancing around a bit before you figure out how to get to the maintenance screens.
I had some problems recently in that the e-mails were not purging from the e-mail workspace with their web e-mail interface, but their tech support cleared it up and it has been trouble free since.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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I'm a casual web developer myself (ASP.Net). I hosted with IX Web Hosting for several years but they kept having systemic problems. More recently I found WinHost which I find works really well, particularly with ASP.Net and SQL Server. Cost is about $100/year I think (including your domain registration and all that).
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