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RF Cafe Now on a VPS - RF Cafe Forums
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Kirt Blattenberger
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Post subject: RF Cafe Now on a VPS
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 1:46 pm
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Joined: Sun Aug 03, 2003
2:02 pm Posts: 653 Location: Erie, PA
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Greetings:
Thanks to all of you who visit
RF Cafe on a regular basis (as well as to those
who happen upon an RF Cafe page as the result of
a search engine result), the bandwidth requirements
have grown beyond what a standard shared Internet
server can reasonably be expected to handle. As
a result, I have had to move the entire website
over to a Virtual Private Server (VPS), which, rather
than sharing an Internet backbone connection with
40 to 50 other domains, now shares it with only
4 or 5. That should translate into faster page delivery.
The cost is about a factor of 5 higher, but it is
long past time for the move.
Over the past
year, I have practically lived in front of my computer
reworking the HTML code to conform to the most recent
Web standard (HTML4.01), and to clean up code for
overall efficiency. There is still a lot of work
to be done. Side note: HTML 5.0 is set for release
in 2022. At the same time, I have been adding hundreds
of pages of technical content, which helps draw
even more people to RF Cafe because the search engines
pick up the pages. All the major search engines
spider RF Cafe a few times each day; usually if
something is placed on the homepage in the morning,
it will show up in Google by evening.
Advertisers
continue to report that RF Cafe provides excellent
exposure to potential customers as a result of the
prominence in professional realms and search engine
hits. This is especially important to companies
in the poor economy. Print advertising in the magazines
is tremendously expensive, and often does not result
in nearly the number of leads as RF Cafe supplies
(according to many of my advertisers). You folks
are responsible for rewarding supporting advertisers,
so thanks also for that.
Believe it or not,
I have to reject requests for advertising space
- particularly in the banner ad locations. Restrictions
on the number of ads are done to try to balance
quality of exposure for paying customers with the
need to keep RF Cafe as efficient as possible.
The page load speed is admittedly slower than
most websites, and that is primarily due to the
ad graphics having to load. Limits are placed on
ad graphic sizes, and I use graphics software to
reduce other graphics sizes as much as possible
while retaining high enough quality to be easy on
the eyes. HTML code is kept to a minimum by through
the use of CSS and by not using large JavaScript
or DHTML code sections for drop-down menus and fancy
effects that normally just annoy people because
even in 2010, there is too much inconsistency between
browser types and versions to guarantee equal results.
Since I do not send out uninvited e-mails (nor
have I ever sold or given e-mails to anyone), and
do not advertise anywhere, RF Cafe is entirely dependent
upon you. If the opportunity arises, please recommend
RF Cafe.com to your friends and colleagues. You
are encouraged to send me recommendations for website
links, articles you have written (I can publish
elsewhere unpublished articles and provide links
to published ones), photos of your professional/personal
or electronics projects, humorous stories, or just
about anything else. If you do not want to send
them to me, then how about posting your information
on the RF Cafe Forums?
As always, I greatly
appreciate your visitorship, and hope you continue
to return on a regular basis. Take care.
Sincerely, Kirt Blattenberger
_________________ - Kirt Blattenberger
RF Cafe Progenitor & Webmaster
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Christie1977 |
Post subject: Re: RF Cafe Now on a VPS
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2010 9:06 am
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Joined: Fri Feb 19, 2010
8:58 am Posts: 2 |
Hi Kirt. I haven't really noticed a difference in
anything but hopefully RF Cafe is more robust now.
I have had to deal with idiot web service providers
in the past. Keep up the good work.
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Akribis |
Post subject: Re: RF Cafe Now on a VPS
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 10:56 am
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Joined: Wed Apr 20, 2011
10:10 am Posts: 4 |
I know this is an old post but what VS host do you
currently use as I am in serious need of a change
due to consistent downtime!
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Kirt Blattenberger
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Post subject: Re: RF Cafe Now on a VPS
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 11:32 am
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Joined: Sun Aug 03, 2003
2:02 pm Posts: 653 Location: Erie, PA
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Greetings Akribis:
I have been with InMotionHosting.com
for over a year and this has been, without a doubt,
the most reliable, trouble-free hosting I have ever
had. There was one instance of an outage for a couple
hours last summer, but that's it as far as I know.
The cost is $40/month if you do a year contract.
Since I also host my AirplanesAndRockets.com website
on the same VPS server (at no additional cost),
the effective price is even less because it would
cost at least $5/mo. for a cheap host for that.
Two dedicated IP addresses are provided for the
$40/mo.
I can definitely recommend their
services. The VPS plans are not available with a
Windows server, but other than case sensitivity
of file names, everything runs the same as far as
I have been able to tell. According to IMH folks,
they do not use Windows servers because security
is nowhere near as good, which I can believe.
_________________ - Kirt Blattenberger
RF Cafe Progenitor & Webmaster
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Akribis |
Post subject: Re: RF Cafe Now on a VPS
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 11:49 am
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Joined: Wed Apr 20, 2011
10:10 am Posts: 4 |
Thanks for your reply Kirt!
The host you
use looks unbelievable! For the price I pay, the
service I get... Is astonishingly dire!
Other
than your host being In the US (slow speeds for
me in the UK) it looks to be a lot more cost effective!
As for them only doing Linux/CentOS that isn't a
problem as it is a lot more versatile!
Cheers
for the info!
Stefan
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