Thursday, May 19, 2005

Netcraft and Rackspace

Today I was sorting some old links in my backup Favorites folder. I went to Netcraft's news page. Netcraft is based in Bath, England, and provides Internet security and other services.  You can check the popularity of sites, even your own site. The example suggested you type in .google.com into the Webserver Search box.  Wow! 144 versions of Google came up. There were a lot of Google sites that I didn't know exist, such as Answers Google.com.

Scanning over the Netcraft News for April, I saw that the Most Reliable Hosting Company Site during March was Rackspace. So I went to Rackspace, and while I was browsing the site, a chat window popped up. Even though there was quite a lag between Fairbanks and the U.K., I had a nice chat with Gary, one of their Live Persons. (I surely wouldn't want to chat with one of their dead persons. !grimace! ) I found out that I could have my own webserver for about $400 a month. Hmmm... maybe I'll do that when I run out of other things to do, my rich uncle gets out of the poor house, or I need to get a job, whichever comes first. In the meantime, I'll keep browsing and learning just for me.