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This site is no longer maintained.
My current weblog.
Tuesday, September 03, 2002Krzysztof Kowalczyk: Blog your resume
This is how a typical resume looks like. My opinion is that it's impossible to tell anything from a typical resume. So a guy says he knows PHP. Does it mean that he's a PHP guru who has written 100k lines of PHP code or that he's just finished "Learn PHP in 15 minutes"? No way to tell. My idea: blog your resume.
I've spent a great deal of time thinking about how to better present myself to recruiters and hiring managers using the web, read all about it in Building a better resume on the web.
Web McDeb: Buh-Bye
I've just received word that my domain will be disabled due to bandwidth overages. No warning...just shut down! Here's the email I received from OLM.net:
"Our systems have detected that your domain mcdeb.com has exceeded the allotted traffic/bandwidth limits for your account type.
The domain mcdeb.com is over pace for web/ftp traffic in the month of Sep. The total traffic for the month so far is: 17.692 GB. The traffic projection for this month is: 17.692 GB. Your account type has a limit of: 8 GB. Web access to the domain has been automatically disabled to protect other customers on the server."
Nice huh? No warning at all. And it's only the beginning of the month! If this site should go down for a few days, that's why. I'm scrambling to back everything up and find a new host.
Seems like an obvious error, given that the month has just begun and their "projection" for the month is the same as the supposed data transfer to date. But it is a typical practice in the web hosting industry to temporarily disable a site that has grossly exceeded it's monthly data transfer allocation. When it's not done it error, customers usually consider it a good thing. They get the chance to pay the fees, upgrade to an account with more transfer, or stay shut down to "stop the bleeding."
I leech off of my former roommate for web hosting. He uses a "VPS Server B" from iServer, an NTT/Verio company. These accounts are neat because we get something akin to root access within the confines of our space, without having to concern ourselves with day-to-day server maintenance. We can install whatever software we like, configured however we need. Data transfer is unlimited, along with most other things. They do charge for additional domains, but I've gotten around that by hacking our sendmail.cf file and using free DNS providers (Granite Canyon and XName).
These accounts aren't for the technically inept, and aren't a good deal for most individual webloggers, but for a group of five to ten they could be an excellent value (ten people, ten bucks per month, 40MB of space each, 200MB left over for logs and shared software).
I'm a total web hosting geek, spent four of the past five years working for one of the largest.
