Welcome To The New Server
written by John Chow
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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It’s for sale.
And what good comes from buying it?
Nothing –but I made you look didn’t I ?
I bet a bunch of people clicked on his link.
I didn’t though!
Haa– I’ve seen it. nice try advertising your blog.
Hmmm…
clever
Server and site are working great!
Nice switch!
-Sam from MarketMatador.com
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?
Celeron isn’t so bad; it’s working pretty well on this one.
Wait until he gets a popular article or a digg and let’s see what happens.
Im sure it will be able to handle a digg.
It will have no problems handling a Digg.
Let’s try it, which post would you like all of us put at dig?
just to test your new blog. nothing else.
Your new server I meant
digg and John Chow don’t get along.. regardless of what server its running on
Too bad your diggs are auto burried
I can’t wait for the day that one of my blogs needs its own server lol.
Congrats!
I second that feeling.
Thanks, i will bought a host in bluefur
Congrats for the new “johnchow dot com” house
Congratulations John!
Congratulations John for the switching to new servers!
I’m hosted on BlueFur as well. If anyone is looking for a web hosting solution, I highly recommend them.
This post is sounding like a great ad for Bluefur
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?
You’ll never be problogger being hosted by blogspot.
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
Sorry in advance for the double post…
smart huh? are you watching for being top commentor?
i am thinking of moving to own server. Blogspot blog has limited functions.
I’d be very interested to hear your reasoning behind this?
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.
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.
I have read somewhere, just don’t remember where… was on this site or at problogger.net?
Wouldn’t it include blogging for a lviing as well?
Yeah Kumiko, you should head over to my blog, ener the one year free hosting conest, win it and become a problogger!
Kuminko. great blog and all but whats with all the pink? Driving me CRAZY!
Haha! I wonder if Techcrunch gets people commenting, “what’s with all the green?”
I like pink. That’s why I use it.
well as long as your making the $$$. I guess its okay.
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.
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
Ouch that sucks.
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
And that’s why I stick with Blogspot. If content really is queen, it shouldn’t matter at all what my domain is.
so we wont be seeing a http://www.kumikoscashquest.com from you ?
Obviously not!
Wow Kumiko, judging by your earnings reports it’s working out even with the blogspot URL and all the pink
If and when I need top quality web hosting, I’ll definitely consider BlueFur. JohnChowRock, eh…LOL nice touch there, man.
Wow… you know your blog has reached a certain size when it needs its own dedicated server to run
Gary spells him name with 1 “R”, not 2.
Yes, BlueFur is a great host. Highly recommended to anyone who demands quality.
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.
I believe Ed Lau has been using it for a while now and he seems happy with it.
Yep, I missed a decimal, you’re right. It is 7.2 hours per month, not 72 !!
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
Does your coupon code have an expiration, John?
Not as far as I know.
If John’s promo code expires you can find up-to-date promo codes for BlueFur Hosting at http://bluefur.promo-code.net/.