Okay, I’m migrating //beconfused for real. It is undergoing migration now. I think I have migrated most of my stuff already.
Notes:
* //beconfused has functionalities reduced at the moment, my web host provider complained that my site grew too big for them to support. That’s ridiculous I think. It hasn’t grown too big yet. I am packing and moving anyway. My web host recommends me to get a dedicated server. Okay, come on, you know my blog doesn’t require a dedicated server.
* I have migrated quietly at May 27, 2006, at 11 am. There should not be any down time at all.
* Comments may be lost during the migration.
* I’m migrating from SurpassHosting to ICDSoft’s SAAVIS servers which is located in the United States. The whole migration takes about 2 days due to DNS propagation, basically beconfused.com is pointed to SurpassHosting’s servers and time is required to update all the servers that the new web site is now at ICDSoft’s.
I paid my bills. The problem is that they told me my website is having too much MySQL connections that it affects their other users. It makes little sense to me but I didn’t want to got through this again. It’s too troublesome. I exchanged emails and waited. The whole process takes too long. I’ll just pay US$0.42 cents more per month and leave SurpassHostings. Those guys are great, but the whole dedicated server thing… Well, there is no way I can afford. I’ll post more about it after I fully migrate.
(//beconfused is migrating on May 20th, 2006.)
There is no migration already. My current host, SurpassHosting, is better than my new one - GoDaddy web hosting. In fact GoDaddy is really quite bad that they spoil my mood each time I hear the name. I’ll post more about my bad experience with GoDaddy.
I prepared this image ready. But it seems that there will be no migration already. I am having a lot of troubles with the current hosting. It seems like all SingNet users cannot access the following addresses:
- www.beconfused.com
- blog.beconfused.com
- beconfused.com/images
All SingNet users can only access it through ‘beconfused.com’ and must add a trailing slash to all directories to view my folders.
It seems not to be a problem at my host’s server side, seems to be a SingNet caching problem. May be some DNS thing involved. I am not sure at this point of time. But SurpassHosting is unable to resolve any of my issues. My pages work fine with all other internet service providers I think. And yes, I am using SingNet…
Try LeapFish, it’s a website that attempts to evaluate how much is your domain name worth. I test it on //beconfused:
CREATING ANALYSIS………..
beconfused.com
Combined Value Score: 109
Top Level Domain Score: 10
Unwanted Characters Score: 10
Dictionary Word Score: 50
Length Score: 8
Archive.org Score: 6
Google Search Results: 568
Yahoo Search Results: 2,820
MSN Search Results: 233
Search Engine Score: 25
Estimated Base Value: $327.00
Estimated Actual Value: $17,822.00
Well, I don’t know if it’s accurate, just something interesting I guess. And yes, my domain name is too long it seems.
Anybody good linguist here can help me translate the following to English?
500 Server Error
Server Error
The following error occurred:
[code=SERVER_RESPONSE_CLOSE] The server closed the connection while reading the response. Contact your system administrator.
Please contact the administrator.
Can anybody tell me what does the above mean? I got that when running it on a test site I have a another domain. I am running WordPress 2.02. Server is Linux, using PHP scripts. I disabled all the plugin already. I get that error message when I am trying to Save or Publish a blog post.
I successfully post the entry but it always return to the 500 Server Error page. I am never successful in doing a pingback. 
Okay, this is perhaps kind of useless but I’ll try this anyway. It’s to use Google to search //beconfused and it works quite like the wordpress search, just that it is better.
I doubt that anyone would perform a search in my site though. I just saw this feature the other day and decided to give it a try. The main point of this search is to search the contents in the web and there are some advertisements that would appear if you have noticed. If you click on those advertisements, I will earn some cents to cover my web hosting cost. Well, I know it’s quite insignificant but every little bit counts. 
The default WordPress search will still be there, the Google search acts as an alternative and extra cash for me. Hopefully this can even out the amount of money I spend in web hosting. Tell me what you think of this search.
Hate advertisements from the internet? Well, previous Tuesday there was lesser of these things. DoubleClick, an internet advertisement company suffered a denial-of-service (DoS) attack.
The outage, first noticed at about 7 a.m. PDT, stemmed from a denial-of-service (DoS) attack that targeted DoubleClick’s domain name server (DNS) system. The attack originated from “outside sources” that caused service disruption for DoubleClick’s ad service clients, according to company spokeswoman Jennifer Blum.
DoS attacks involve flooding a Web site’s servers with packets of information or sending streams of requests for information. As a result, servers cannot handle the load and shut down, causing blackouts that last for hours and sometimes for days. In this case, according to DoubleClick, the attackers targeted its DNS servers, which translate word-based Web addresses, such as www.doubleclick.com, into numeric Internet addresses.
DoubleClick joins Internet infrastructure company Akamai as targets for DNS attacks. In June, a DoS attack targeting Akamai’s DNS servers caused brief blackouts among the company’s biggest clients, including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple Computer.
Source: CNET News.com
Actually, I was quite happy when DoubleClick went offline, lol. Less pesky advertisements for a day. Still advertisements are need to keep the web free.
Servers aren’t cheap and companies either use subscriptions or advertisements to keep alive. That’s why you see your favorite web sites with more than 1 advertisement per page sometimes.
What’s your say in it? For me, I am forced to like internet advertisements, I would like content to continue to be free. I guess that’s a small price to pay. What’s your say in it?
Nielsen//NetRatings, a firm that deals in internet audience measurement and analysis, provides the statistics concerning the recent MSBlaster worm attack. Traffic of web sites with information concerning MSBlaster worm has increased significantly.
At the bottom of the top 5 list is Zone Lab’s web site, attracting 638,000 users, that is a 73% increase compared to the previous week. Norton Anti-Virus maker, Symantec, sees their viewer ship increase over 302% with over 4 million users.
The Windows Update web site which was targeted by the MSBlaster worm sees over 11 million users; that is an increase of 76% week on week. MSN Tech and Gadgets, which provided information and articles about the worm, attracted over a million people, seeing a 304% jump on that week.
Well, the winner is Microsoft’s TechNet site which recorded 3.9 million unique surfers as compared to 317,000 of the preceding week. That is a surge of 1131% week on week!
Don’t you just love statistics?
The worm attack launched on Microsoft’s Windows Update web site fail too. The worm is preprogrammed to attack http://www.windowsupdate.com/ which is just a redirecting web site. Microsoft removed Windows Update’s redirecting site and the attack failed. Somehow this DoS attack attempt reminds me of Code-Red which attacks http://www.whitehouse.gov/. I guess the worm’s author fail in his attempt.
That’s the default color for the Q&A for your info. I added a new theme - Goto Maki! She went solo last year I think. She used to be in Morning Musume. Check her out, she looks really pretty. [I kinda cheated and smoothen her skin just A BIT, hehee.. But she's still pretty without my editing.] At first, I only include her picture to her shoulder, not revealing her bikini. After a couple of look, I find it extremely distasteful, so much so that I recreated from a scratch - this time including her bikini. She looks more stylish in this way. Some minor updates only. I am gearing it up for a change coming September 01, so be sure to get your mouse (the computer one) ready. Oh, my Stellvia of the Universe download is complete. So happy about it. Shin-pon~! lol
