Hostmonster Sucks!
Posted by Pavan Chander | Filed under Software
Ya that’s right, I am definitely done with them. The past week or two has been a horrible experience.
I am so angry at them right now, its not funny.
Arrgh, I’ll see about writing something intelligible tomorrow.
OpenID
Posted by Pavan Chander | Filed under Web
OpenID is a decentralised, web based, authentication system that has many uses.
Although I have known about OpenID for quite some time now, I basically totaly ignored it and it’s potential. I will be posting lots more information over the next few days, but I have just finishing watching a couple of talks on the concept so I’m quite exciting at the moment.
Let me just say that I truly feel that OpenID is going to become an integral part of the online web community. If you can spare just 15 min, watch the first bit of this video. I thought I was fairly well versed on the subject, but when Simon exhausted my knowledge in the first 10 or so minutes I knew there was something big here. Something that could turn out to be a staple building block of tomorrows Internet 4.0 or whatever version the media is currently all hyped up about.
HostMonster, the new host on my block
Posted by Pavan Chander | Filed under Review, Web
Well I’ve been pretty busy the last few weeks, and this blog has basically gone dead. Although I still get a fair share of googlers looking up Mojo, or comparing the Sequoia with the Navigator.
So onto current news of the…month now I guess; On browsing around the web I stumbled across HostMonster, a webhost that had some intersting features to offer.
Currently I am with 1&1 hosting, and I have been extremely happy with their service, the price was an unbelievable $5/month for two included domains, 120GB storage, 1.2TB monthly bandwidth (Not a typo), and the usual 2GB IMAP email inboxes, PHP, Perl etc.
For $6/month (Promotional price, now it’s $7), HostMonster gives me unlimited storage and bandwith (Which itself pays for the $1 premium), one included domain, SSH access, & Ruby on Rails. RoR is something I’ve been wanting to sit and play with for quite some time now so it was love at first site.
In addition one of my only caveats with 1and1 was that they forced your ftp account name to contain your Customer ID, a long random string of numbers. Small annoyance, but terribly irratating when you dont have it saved in the software. Needless to say, this was non-existant with HostMonster.
That’s enough for praise.
The first incident I had with HM was that immediatly after confirming my payment, HM sent my user/pass in clear text in a URL. Which meant that not only did my password get saved in my computers history, it also got sent over the network for anyone to sniff.
In addition it seems that one of the two ways that HM verifies your identification when you call in, is to ask you for your password, it seems that anyone on their tech support has access to your password. Which may not be the end of the world, as they also have full access to your account, but it is the priciple of the thing. In this day and age, it should be their policy to never ask for a customers password. 1&1 asks for the customer ID number, and/or phonenumber, name.
Also for some unknown reason, Editplus isnt able to edit any files on the ftp server, due to either permission issues, or cryptic error messages saying that the “File doesn’t exist”.
I plan on sticking it out a little while longer, till I can get shell access (a procedure that has to be verified with a Photo ID) and play around with RoR.
Tags: RoR, security, server, Technology
