April 15th, 2013

Hosting Undergoes Massive Changes As Providers Move Towards Platform As A Service

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The explosion of infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service offerings has greatly expanded the ways in which hobbyists and professionals deploy web sites and web services. For about the same cost as cheapo shared hosting, you can get your own small virtual machine at any number of providers, allowing you to tweak the entire instance to just the way you want it. If infrastructure isn’t… → Read More

February 26th, 2013

Cloudflare Partners With World’s Leading Web Hosts To Implement Its Railgun Protocol, Speeds Up Load Times By Up To 143%

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Cloudflare, the content delivery network and website security company that launched at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco in 2010, just announced that the majority of the world’s leading web hosting providers now support its Railgun web optimization protocol to provide advanced caching services and to improve their web performance. Railgun, Cloudflare’s tests show, can optimize dynamic content to… → Read More

September 27th, 2012

First Look At Snapjoy’s iOS App For Photo Viewing. Apple, Take Notice.

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I told you about a new feature from the Snapjoy team just the other day, but it seems like things are picking up for the small Boulder company. Co-founder Michael Dwan understands the dilemma of keeping all of your photos online and in one place, better than most companies I’ve ever discussed the subject with. It’s that, combined with a beautiful design and comprehensive, yet simple, feature set… → Read More

October 26th, 2009

Honoring fallen comrades. GeoCities goes down.

Today marks the death of an internet giant. One of the first, one of the best. Oh GeoCities. What would we have done without you? Where would we have put our brightly colored, constantly flashing backgrounds? Who else had rotating .gifs for links and neon green page hit counters? There is no substitute for your plethora of font colors and sizes, for your broken HTML codes and page badges, for your… → Read More

June 21st, 2007

The Pirate Bay Launches Image Hosting

Us pirates know that The Pirate Bay team has been working on several new projects, with one of them becoming a competitor to YouTube. For now though, we’ve been blessed with BayImg, a unique image hosting service from TPB. Unlike sites like Photobucket and Imageshack, who will delete your photos if deemed “unfit”, BayImg lets you upload any image, uncensored, in over 100+ file… → Read More