An archive of the Reviews category

By Greg  |  June 21, 2011  |  Business News , Reviews  |  Be the first to comment

A picture of waves near Samara Beach Costa Rica

About a week down and I’m already finding it tough to find great pictures to liven up the old blog. Luckily, a photographer named Richard Freedman had some great shots of waves crashing around Samara Beach and I thought “Hey, this will be a great blog shot.” Enjoy!

I will be the first to admit that I fell into the Color hype. When I heard the phrases, “$41 million in venture funding”, “proximity based social networks” and “photo sharing”, I was intrigued. Intrigued enough that I downloaded the app, tried it out, got some coworkers/friends using it on their iPhones, then never used it again.

The first version of Color was (how can I put this mildly?) quite possibly developed to be some type of bizarre torture device. Not only was the app as intuitive as neurosurgery, but there was absolutely no documentation. Yes, there was a demo, but the video was more sales pitch than legitimate tool for getting help. Theoretically simple functions (like sharing photos) went way over my head. And when I went online to find help, all I found were a litany of similar complaints. Definitely not the first experience you want with an app…

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By Greg  |  June 16, 2011  |  Reviews , Web Hosting  |  Be the first to comment

Those of you who followed my old blog no doubt remember how much I stressed over the Virtual Private Server (VPS) decision. I was caught in a place where my various sites were eating up too much power to stick with a shared host, but I had never hosted my sites on a VPS and wasn’t sure what provider to go with. After much thought, I went with my instincts and chose Linode.

Roughly three months later and I have never been happier. Not only are all of my sites fast, but I love having the control that a VPS offers. The Linode Control Panel is extremely easy to use – I can restart, rebuild, resize or clone my servers quickly and easily. As far as statistics go, in roughly 90 days of service, I have been down once, for about ten minutes. That downtime resulted in my one and only support experience with Linode – the support experience was excellent and I had a great time working with their rep.

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