WordPress 2.5 Released

As it had been pre­dicted, Word­Press 2.5 has just been made avail­able coin­cid­ing with Word­Camp Dallas.
This blog is already run­ning the new ver­sion and the upgrade was as pain­less as pos­si­ble. It took less than 15 min­utes, and that was mostly due to the slow upload­ing of files. Just make sure to check that all your plu­g­ins are up-to-date and that none of them con­flicts with release 2.5. A good place to check for plugin com­pat­i­bil­ity is the Plugin Com­pat­i­bil­ity 2.5 list main­tained by the Word­Press com­mu­nity. Full direc­tions to upgrade are listed in the Upgrad­ing Word­Press guide. [Read more]

Reverse IP Lookup: How Many Neighbors You Have?

Just recently I changed web hosts. While doing my research to find a reli­able com­pany, one of the para­me­ters I wanted to inves­ti­gate was how many and what kind of sites were hosted on the same server.
Many com­pa­nies try to stuff as many cus­tomers as they can into the same machine to save costs. This became spe­cially notice­able in the last few years with the advent of the big “over­seller” com­pa­nies promis­ing enor­mous amounts of disk space and band­width at impos­si­ble low prices. Every­one has seen those offer­ings: “1 TB disk space and unlim­ited band­width for just US$ 5 / month!”, etc. Their rea­son­ing is that since most users have low demands or inac­tive accounts, it doesn’t make a dif­fer­ence to pack a truck­load of them in the same space as long as the aver­age is not sig­nif­i­cantly affected.
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