Often times I subscribe to people's blog posts when I leave a comment, because I'm interested in other folks' comments as well. Unfortunately, this occasionally means that a spam comment ends up in my inbox:
My question is this: Should I report this as spam? I mean, I did kind of ask for it (not really... but yeah... but no).
The last thing I want is for GMail to start filtering all blog comment emails as spam. I think this is where some transparency with Google could help. What exactly do they do with a message after we mark it as spam? Or heck, give us configurable white/black lists.
What do you do?
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8 Responses
Posted 2008-07-17 07:01
You're developing your CFML in Eclipse, right? And you're probably using CFEclipse and Subclipse to go along with that. Of course!
But are you using Snippets? You should be!
And you should be using the SnipEx client built right into CFEclipse. Todd Sharp's CFSnippets.org is a free public SnipEx library focused on ColdFusion and CFML developers.
And as of today, thanks to yours truly, there is a Verity Library, too. It's often said that one could make a career out of implementing and tuning Verity, so it's obviously something that can be very complex and difficult to remember between uses. I'm no Verity pro, but I've added my most frequently used snippet and I'm curious to see what other developers have done with Verity.
So go on, post your snippets. Let's all make searching easier and search results better.
in
ColdFusion |
Community |
1 Response
Posted 2008-07-15 08:21
HostMySite, arguably the most popular and most highly spoken of ColdFusion hosting provider now has what it refers to as their Professional VPS offering -- in addition to their previous offerings. And here are the specs of note:
- RAM: 2gb Guaranteed -- previous options: 512mb or 1gb
- Disk Space: 100gb -- previous options: 10 or 22gb
- Bandwidth: 800gb / month -- previously: 400gb
- SQL Server: Standard -- previous options: Express or Workgroup
- Setup remains free (currently, through the month of July, according to the site.)
And what does this new professional VPS cost? $3,228 per year, if you pay for a full year in advance, or $3,468 per year if you pay monthly.
Now, before I get to complaining, let me say that I understand first hand that running a business is about making money and you can't just give your products and services away.
For every hosting account that they give away to various community sites (ie: User Groups get free hosting), they have to pad a little bit into their pricing to make up the loss. And you also have to pay your employees -- which I'm sure they have quite a few, to keep their reputation for excellent customer service -- and your own bills, and make a little bit extra. That's just how businesses work.
But here's my gripe. $3,200? Are you freaking kidding me?
An Enterprise license costs $7,500. And there's hardware, redundancy, electricity, and internet connectivity to think about. So you know, maybe for someone who needs that sort of hardware, bandwidth, and storage capacity, it's not such a terrible deal.
But from what I understand, their "plus" VPS plan with 1gb of ram is just barely manageable, and the few people I've spoken to about it don't think they could manage with the 512mb of ram in their ever-so-slightly cheaper VPS plan.
But what about those of us who would like the performance of a VPS (as compared to shared hosting), but don't necessarily need 800gb of bandwidth or 100gb of storage? How about a "doesn't suck" VPS plan, that has:
- 1.5gb ram
- 5gb storage
- 10gb bandwidth
- SQL Server Express (which, need I remind you, is absolutely free?)
What would something like that cost? I'd like to see it at the same price as the "plus" plan ($169), if not the standard plan ($116). It seems pretty simple to me: Build machines with gobs and gobs of ram, and reasonably sized hard drives; instead of the other way around.
in
ColdFusion |
Community |
4 Responses
Posted 2008-07-02 02:26
