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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