I recently switched my shared webhost from Hostgator and previously to that from Godaddy to Steadfast Networks. This switch was made in my search for some fast and reliable servers. I read many good reviews about them and I wanted also to test the Litespeed based webservers. I was very pleasantly impressed with this and Apache lost my vote for the moment. One of the main things that struck me was a plugin used for this blog, called Google XML Sitemaps. When you rebuild your sitemap manually it show you in one of the status lines how much time it took and how much memory it used. On Godaddy I had to raise the memory limit to 16, because it used around 10-12 MB of memory, and took about 6 seconds to complete. On Hostgator about the same, but when I copied my blog to Steadfast, besides the obvious increase in browsing speed, I saw:

“The building process took about 1.22 seconds to complete and used 1.5 MB of memory.”

That’s why from now on, after bouncing from webhost to webhost, I will remain with Steadfast until I will be disappointed with something (hopely not too soon).

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The Microsoft and Yahoo merger is still far from over despite failed negotiations between the two companies. Yahoo managed to remain independent and fend off Microsoft’s unsolicited acquisition proposal for no less than three months and now the Sunnyvale Internet giant has to suffer the consequences. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is mounting nothing short of an all out attack on Yahoo, attempting to replace the Board of Directors that said “no” to the Redmond giant. Icahn, who nominated himself for a seat on a new board of Directors for the Sunnyvale Internet company revealed that he represented a group of shareholders who believed that a bundle between Microsoft and Yahoo would be capable of taking on Google. Read the rest of this entry »

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