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Fri, 21 Mar 2003
Apple launches new student web site
Apple has created a new web site aimed at students, in an attempt to regain their lead in the education market.
MyMacMail.com is now hosted at fastmail.fm
The people at Fastmail.fm have taken over mymacmail.com, which I'm no longer able to host thanks to BounceWeb's server change. All of the original user names will be preserved, although any mail on the old server at the time of the crash was lost.
You can read more about it here.
Apple reschedules WWDC two days after MacHack
Apple today announced that it has rescheduled its 2003
Worldwide Developers Conference in order to provide developers with a more
complete preview release of the next version of Mac OS X, code named
"Panther." Originally scheduled for May 19-23 in San Jose, the conference will
now be held June 23-27 at San Francisco's Moscone Center.
Note that this is two days after the end of MacHack, which runs from June 19-21 in Dearborn, MI, which will make it very difficult for most people to attend both shows.
I've only been to one WWDC, when my employer paid for it, although I've been to two MacHacks and I plan to go this year. MacHack is a lot cheaper & more fun.
BounceWeb problems
As anyone who's visited today probably knows, BounceWeb was having problems with their SQL server for most of the day.
I've become fed up with their constant problems and I'm now looking for a new web hosting provider for both MacMegasite & WorldBeatPlanet. I've stayed with BounceWeb up to now because of their low price (hosting this site only costs me $5/month for 350M of space and 10G bandwidth (which is half the regular price as a "reward" for staying after their first big crash; they also gave me a free reseller account as another incentive). Even though it's cheaper than anyone else, I can't put up with their frequent down time any more.
Since I'm not making any money from MacMegasite or WorldBeatPlanet, cost is an issue for me.
If anyone can recommend a good web hosting provider, let me know.