Rails hosting
My buddy just sent me a link to a hosting company I haven’t seen before: Site5. I’m curious as to how their customer support is, and how much control you get over your hosting package. (e.g. SSH? Multiple domains? etc.)
We at Carbon Media have always trusted our sites to Apis Networks, which we’ve had nothing but exceptional customer service from. Plus, they were more than accommodating when starting off with Ruby on Rails and helping us get our applications up and running.
However, Site5 does support Rails. If anybody has experience with this company, please leave a comment or send an email to let me know what you think of them! I may just have to start up a personal project to give them a test run…
Why I Won't Adopt Facebook's Pages Model
Yesterday, Facebook released a new ‘feature’ on it’s social network dubbed ‘Pages’. After checking it out, and creating my own page I realized it was directly for marketing, probably to compete with Google AdWords and other such inventions.
Here’s the stitch, I already have a group on Facebook for my business with near 200 subscribed members. Do I really want to start over from scratch with a ‘Page’ that people can become a ‘fan’ of. No, I’m not in the least bit interested. In fact, I’m downright confused. What is the relevance of Groups at this point?
After reading a terrific article on TechCrunch what I already believed to be true was amplified, and I’m quickly losing interest in using Facebook as a method of marketing.
Good luck with your cash grab, FB!
In other news:
The US dollar is still on it’s greatest decline since the civil war, here’s a nice little extra that xe.com through up on their site:
Yup, they have to define what’s going on with a big question mark, possibly because a few fellow Canadians are actually stumped by the fact that our dollar is worth MORE than the Americano.
