Myspace what a pile of shit. The “you can make your page look like anything” crapola irritates the beejesus out of me. And for whatever reason don’t you dare open more than one myspace page using a multi-tab browser or you will co-create a cacophony of incongruent melodies, which does bring back distant memories of outdoor raves where sound bleed over was commonplace. The “my myspace designed by the-dude-that-should-not-be-a-web-designer” should be pulled out his Fancy desk chair and tarred & feathered. Lastly, the lack of ad control on your myspace page is the final nail in the coffin.
As bad as myspace is its uber-popular, and everyone organization, band, group, collective, or cult has (as their main website) a myspace page. I get shivers when I see these links please visit our site :: h*tp://myspace.com/we-have-more-friends-than-you-cult. Myspace does provide some good networking tools though tribe.net does a better job, and Facebook even tops tribe. Facebook is centered around which networks you belong to, and there is even special requirements that you actually have to be part of a network to say you belong. As compared to tribes on tribe.net or groups on myspace.com, Facebook does it right.
In other words if you are ::
13 - 17 yrs old please use myspace.
18 - 20 [or you think buringman is king OR that crystals procured your last job] please use tribe.net
21 - 103 please use facebook.com
In all fairness, I do pages on each of these. I do plan however to spend most time on Facebook and less time on the other 2, but all sites are networking tools. In my opinion its the same concept as having multiple IM accounts, and using a IM program which supports multiple chat protocols, like Miranda-IM, but I digress.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=695873273
http://www.tribe.net/talkderby2me
http://www.myspace.com/talkderby2me
Final words ::
Pay $3 / month for your own hosting account, and setup a content management system (CMS) like drupal, or a blog like wordpress. Then go choose a free theme design from the interWeb that works with either of these platforms. After that your main website will be XHTML 1.0 compliant with a URL address of http://my-own-name.com
Looks good on paper. A new-fangled web hosting technology is merely a waste of time. Although, they did refund my $20 as per their 30 day money-back guarantee.
Almost every-other web hosting company uses what is known as Shared hosting. They have one Web Server with anywhere from 1 to who knows? number of clients. Each client can host a range of websites from 1 to unlimited. With this traditional web hosting model, the server could become overloaded very quickly and its resources [ CPU + RAM ] will be in short supply. Hard drive space in these situations is usually unlimited because of the use of an NAS.
Enter the Gridserver technology. To alleviate the problem with running out of CPU + RAM, the Gridserver is designed in the method of a Computer Cluster. Basically, instead of 1 computer the Gridserver can support unlimited machines. It is unknown how many machines are actually being used. So in theory, this is a great solution to the limited resources by oversupplying the CPU + RAM demands. However I noticed the Gridserver’s implementation of a cluster to be buggy at best. For Example, 1 out of 10 page loads results in a 403 Forbidden error. These errors occur when the web server does not have access to the file you are asking it to provide. So how did it access the file during the other 9 times?
Mediatemple’s answer to this issue:
“It looks as though the redirect isn’t working and it’s trying to call up an error document that isn’t accessable. A thing to remember is your domain on the grid is name based rather than IP based. How are you pointing to “mydomain.com”? Since you aren’t using our name servers we are unable to troubleshoot DNS issues.”
It’s true, I was using outside DNS.
So DNS is working 9 out of 10 times? And that 1 time DNS doesn’t happen to function properly, in short it tells the web server, “hey you don’t have access rights that file!” Wow, that is the some powerful DNS! Its my understanding DNS is used for the SOLE purpose of translating mydomain.com into an IP [ xx.yy.zz.aaa ] and back again. Since when does DNS actually control who has access to files, I thought that was root’s job? Perhaps in the Gridserver world, everyone is root?
Anyway it cost me 2 days time to learn Mediatemple is another host to avoid.