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If you’re reading this, you’re on the new John Chow dot Com server. I’ve decided it was time to move the blog to its own dedicated box. Before, the blog was hosted for free on The TechZone servers.

The new server was supplied and set up by my good friends at BlueFur.com. The blog is now hosted on a BlueFur Xlite package, a nice little 3GHz Celeron server with 512 MB of RAM and an 80 GB IDE hard drive. It’s no where near as powerful of the Dual Xeon, 4 GB RAM, SCSI 320 monsters that powers TTZ but it’s more than powerful enough to handle the traffic of this blog.

I like to thank Gary of BlueFur for helping me move the site and database over to the new box. If you are in need of some high quality web hosting, give BlueFur a shout. Use the coupon code JohnChowRocks for 15% off all services.

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    104 Comments

    Comment by Bob
    2007-05-05 19:59:12
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    I have a secret JohnChow post most of you haven’t seen :twisted:
    It’s for sale.

    Comment by Shaun Carter
    2007-05-05 21:01:48
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    And what good comes from buying it?

    Comment by Bob
    2007-05-06 05:27:37
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    Nothing –but I made you look didn’t I ?

    Comment by Entrepreneur
    2007-05-07 08:36:17
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    I bet a bunch of people clicked on his link.

    I didn’t though! :)

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    Comment by Grace
    2007-05-05 22:07:04
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    Haa– I’ve seen it. nice try advertising your blog.

     
    Comment by OnlineCashFlow
    2007-05-06 00:35:09
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    Hmmm…

     
    Comment by Everyday Weekender
    2007-05-06 11:35:52
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    clever :twisted:

     
     
    Comment by Market Matador
    2007-05-05 20:07:02
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    Server and site are working great!

    Nice switch! :cool:

    -Sam from MarketMatador.com

    Comment by Secure Hosting
    2007-05-06 04:13:01
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    What, a *Celeron* server for a blog with the traffic that you are generating? I guess you don’t plan on getting any more diggs to your blog then?

    2007-05-06 04:17:10
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    Celeron isn’t so bad; it’s working pretty well on this one.

    Comment by Secure Hosting
    2007-05-06 06:28:33
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    Wait until he gets a popular article or a digg and let’s see what happens.

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    Comment by MUbin
    2007-05-06 06:46:43
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    Im sure it will be able to handle a digg.

     
    Comment by John Chow
    2007-05-06 08:48:19
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    It will have no problems handling a Digg.

     
    2007-05-06 10:10:14
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    Let’s try it, which post would you like all of us put at dig?
    just to test your new blog. nothing else. :evil:

     
    2007-05-06 10:10:43
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    Your new server I meant

     
    Comment by Everyday Weekender
    2007-05-06 11:36:45
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    digg and John Chow don’t get along.. regardless of what server its running on :mrgreen:

     
    Comment by Entrepreneur
    2007-05-07 08:37:10
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    Too bad your diggs are auto burried :(

     
     
     
     
     
    Comment by SEO Blog
    2007-05-05 20:33:47
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    I can’t wait for the day that one of my blogs needs its own server lol.

    Congrats!

    Comment by Shaun Carter
    2007-05-05 21:00:13
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    I second that feeling.

     
     
    Comment by Alex
    2007-05-05 20:42:34
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    Thanks, i will bought a host in bluefur :)

     
    Comment by digitalfans
    2007-05-05 20:46:11
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    Congrats for the new “johnchow dot com” house :razz:

     
    Comment by Shaun Carter
    2007-05-05 21:07:22
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    Congratulations John!

     
    Comment by Grace
    2007-05-05 22:19:26
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    Congratulations John for the switching to new servers!

     
    Comment by Ed Lau
    2007-05-05 22:24:23
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    I’m hosted on BlueFur as well. If anyone is looking for a web hosting solution, I highly recommend them.

    Comment by Entrepreneur
    2007-05-07 08:38:03
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    This post is sounding like a great ad for Bluefur :)

     
     
    Comment by Cassio Barth
    2007-05-05 22:28:18
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    Hi John.

    I would like to know why my blog was rejected in Rewiew Me´s site??? Could you help me?

    my blog adress is http://www.riquezaeabundancia.blogspot.com

    Thank you very much.

    Ps.: I would like to be a problogger. Do you have tips?

    :???:

    Comment by John Chow
    2007-05-05 23:23:41
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    You’ll never be problogger being hosted by blogspot.

    Comment by Eric
    2007-05-05 23:33:29
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    John… you’re right, this would usually be true. However, there is an exception

    fakesteve.blogspot.com

    The guy who writes the blog above is sponsored by Wired Magazine… I’m not sure if this makes him a pro blogger, but it is definitely pretty awesome!

    How to get music off an iPod

    Comment by Eric
    2007-05-05 23:38:26
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    Sorry in advance for the double post…

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    2007-05-06 10:13:42
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    smart huh? are you watching for being top commentor?

     
     
    Comment by Steve Yu
    2007-05-06 04:05:38
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    i am thinking of moving to own server. Blogspot blog has limited functions.

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    Comment by Kumiko
    2007-05-05 23:33:46
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    I’d be very interested to hear your reasoning behind this?

    Comment by John Chow
    2007-05-05 23:40:12
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    I may do a blog entry on it. But in a nutshell, “Pro” means you own your own domain and you’re not a sub-domain of someone else.

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    Comment by Kumiko
    2007-05-06 02:03:25
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    Thank you. I’d look forward to reading the post. I have a different definition of what “Pro” means but as we’re both counting dollars from blogging (you take a little longer…), definitions are irrelevant.

     
    2007-05-06 10:16:45
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    I have read somewhere, just don’t remember where… was on this site or at problogger.net?

     
    Comment by Entrepreneur
    2007-05-07 08:39:21
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    Wouldn’t it include blogging for a lviing as well?

     
     
    Comment by Bob
    2007-05-06 00:57:22
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    Yeah Kumiko, you should head over to my blog, ener the one year free hosting conest, win it and become a problogger! :wink:

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    Comment by MUbin
    2007-05-06 01:43:57
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    Kuminko. great blog and all but whats with all the pink? Driving me CRAZY!

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    Comment by Kumiko
    2007-05-06 02:06:44
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    Haha! I wonder if Techcrunch gets people commenting, “what’s with all the green?”

    I like pink. That’s why I use it.

     
    Comment by MUbin
    2007-05-06 03:00:36
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    well as long as your making the $$$. I guess its okay.

     
    Comment by Johan Cyprich
    2007-05-06 17:44:28
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    My wife wonders why my blog has a coffee theme since I don’t drink coffee, well, sort of. I like ice capuccino’s once in a while. :)

    I chose the coffee theme because the graphics look good. That’s all.

     
     
    Comment by Philomena Ojikutu
    2007-05-06 19:03:35
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    Kumiko,

    John is perfectly correct. 9 months of my blogspot blog, 2,283 FeedBurner subscriber, 350K monthly page views, 40K unique visitors - All I have for monthly income is an average of 500 U$D!

    Blogspot is severely limiting of potentials of versatile bloggers like u and I. It took 7 moths before ReviewMe could recognise my blogging labor, even at that only a paltry $60 per review.

    Can you imagine that I beat even John Chow in statistics last month (sorry march 2007), yet I made less than $500 as compared to his $8,500+?

    That is why I angrily moved to my own domain this month- Story-Story Dot Com

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    Comment by Entrepreneur
    2007-05-07 08:40:40
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    Ouch that sucks.

     
     
     
    Comment by Eric
    2007-05-05 23:37:23
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    Actually John… that’s not necessarily true:

    fakesteve.blogspot.com”

    This guy is hosted by blogspot, and he happens to be sponsored by WIRED magazine.

    Not to shabby eh?

    Get music off your iPod

    Comment by Kumiko
    2007-05-06 02:08:30
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    And that’s why I stick with Blogspot. If content really is queen, it shouldn’t matter at all what my domain is.

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    Comment by Bob
    2007-05-06 02:16:32
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    so we wont be seeing a http://www.kumikoscashquest.com from you ? :idea:

     
    Comment by Kumiko
    2007-05-06 04:38:01
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    Obviously not! :)

     
    Comment by Marc
    2007-05-06 08:33:48
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    Wow Kumiko, judging by your earnings reports it’s working out even with the blogspot URL and all the pink ;)

     
     
     
     
     
    2007-05-05 22:38:24
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    If and when I need top quality web hosting, I’ll definitely consider BlueFur. JohnChowRock, eh…LOL nice touch there, man.

     
    Comment by Ricco
    2007-05-05 22:43:04
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    Wow… you know your blog has reached a certain size when it needs its own dedicated server to run :)

     
    Comment by Matt
    2007-05-05 22:58:25
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    Gary spells him name with 1 “R”, not 2. :P

    Yes, BlueFur is a great host. Highly recommended to anyone who demands quality. :)

    Comment by Secure Hosting
    2007-05-06 04:17:06
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    They are offering a 99% uptime SLA on their hosting. Do you understand that this is *3 days* of down time per month?

    I am very surprised that the evil John Chow have moved his hosting to a solution like this. Celeron CPU server and 99% SLA … hmm.

    2007-05-06 08:30:06
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    I believe Ed Lau has been using it for a while now and he seems happy with it.

    Comment by Secure Hosting
    2007-05-06 10:47:18
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    Yep, I missed a decimal, you’re right. It is 7.2 hours per month, not 72 !!

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    Comment by Marc
    2007-05-06 08:37:35
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    You might want to do your math again. 99% would mean 1/100 days downtime. While that’s still a lot more downtime than most providers, it’s much better than 3 days per month :)

     
     
     
    2007-05-05 23:15:36
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    Does your coupon code have an expiration, John?

    Comment by John Chow
    2007-05-05 23:25:13
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    Not as far as I know.

     
    Comment by BlueFur Promo
    2007-05-07 06:14:43
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    If John’s promo code expires you can find up-to-date promo codes for BlueFur Hosting at http://bluefur.promo-code.net/.

     
     
    Comment by Start A Website
    2007-05-05 23:29:03