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Do NOT use Omnis.com for your hosting! |
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Written by Nathaniel
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Sunday, 26 July 2009 06:57 |
So, I finally got rid of Omnis Networks after 8 years of doing business with them. Why? Well, I'll start at the beginning.
So for a long time Omnis has been a great host. Lots of room and lots of options. Their frontpage says unlimited space. Nothing is unlimited and I knew that, but it was actually 1.7TB of space. I figured that was close enough to unlimited for what I was doing. The annoying part was they limited the number of files I could use to like 46,000. Ya, that sounds like alot, but it went fast. SO I was playing the game of deleting one set of stuff to put up something else. I lived with that for a few years. Then comes the bad part. The site began to slow down. It went down slowly so that I hardly noticed it. I thought it was my internet connection. Then, people began to commant on it...hmmm, I thought, what could be happening. I still thought it was my internet connection or that the video they were trying to load was just too big. Then it happened. One day I went to upload a file and I was transfering at 8.0Kb/S. Not fun. It would go faster if I sent the file by airmail.....So I asked Omnis. They said I was using to much server resource and I was being capped. It took them a while to admit it. I went and looked in my admin panel and I was using 9Gb out of 1700Gb. I went back to omnis and told them that. They insisted I was using more and they would NEVER cap me for using that little. Ya, right. So after a few days of screwing around with their low level tech support, we tried to talk at a system admin. To no ones great suprise, they would not let us. We did find out though, that Omnis has a blanket clause in their TAC that allowed them to cap anyone at any time for using what they deemed as too much server resources and hurting other users. Now, as a web and network guy and my dad being a certified Network tech, we KNEW we were not causing slowdowns in other user service. All we had were static files. We were using low bandwidth, but becuase we passed the 2Gb use mark we began getting capped. Let me say that again, on Omnis, if you use more than 2Gb of space you are CAPPED!!!!!! the higher you go above that the worse it gets! That is completely stupid and dumb. File size does not adversely effect other customers and 2Gb out of 1700Gb is such a small level. They say they have unlimited, but it really is limited to 1.7TB and THAT is LIMITED to only being able to use 2Gb without being capped to kingdom come. Omnis is false advertising! I urge everyone that reads this to STAY AWAY from Omnis Networks!
So, we are now with a great host called JustHost. They are a great company that does not have a hard limit to file numbers and will actually work with you to upgrade your account. All at a great price. If you are looking for web hosting talk with them first! If you want something done with your webspace, talk with me first! :) |
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Written by Nathaniel
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Tuesday, 03 March 2009 16:23 |
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You see what happens when I try to be nice? I place an AJAX shoutbox here and it gets spammed. I wish to apologize for those comments and I will not put it back. |
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Written by Nathaniel
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Wednesday, 25 February 2009 05:19 |
Sooo...this saturday I have a belt test in my Martial Arts class....starts and 08:30 or something like that.....wonderful. Oh well. I'mm be there bright and early ready to go for my purple belt....after this, only 3 more tests till black! Next year I hope to get that. Although, Jessica should get hers this year. YAY JESSICA!!!!!!!
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Last Updated on Friday, 27 February 2009 20:43 |
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Acts 16:11-15-Lovely Lady Lydia |
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Written by Nathaniel
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Sunday, 25 January 2009 16:10 |
This is a post off Rick Davis' blog. He very kindly is allowing me to post this.
So, we arrive at the place where we discover lovely lady Lydia in our New Testament. After we discuss her particulars, we need to say what she means to the early church. Lydia may not be her name. She may be a lady of Lydia, in Asia Minor, where the city of Thyatira was known for purple dyed cloth. She was the local retailer in Philippi. She was probably a Jewish convert, a widow and the Holy Spirit awakened in her the need for honest fulfilment in the Messiah as she hears the message of Jesus, the Christ. That is Lydia. Now, what about women in the church? What about the spiritual life of women? This, by the way, will (and is now) the next big theological flap in the traditional Free Church movement. There is nothing you or I or anyone can do to keep this issue from manifestation, so we can just get ready for it. |
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Last Updated on Sunday, 25 January 2009 16:32 |
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Read more... [Acts 16:11-15-Lovely Lady Lydia]
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Written by Nathaniel
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Sunday, 25 January 2009 02:08 |
So as some of you may or may not know. This site is built upon the best CMS around. Joomla! is a great system that does everything through it's vast assortment of extensions. However, stock, it lacks in SEF (search engine friendly) URLs. It goes everything with
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That sort of thing would happen all over the place for every link. It is now a thing of the past. The URLs are now SEF!
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http://www.blandranch.net/index.php?/Latest/snow-not.html
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YAY! I use sh404SEF! It's a great extension. Here on Omnis hosting, it works directly out of the box using the "Index.php?/" method without htaaccess.
Anyway, that's all I have right now. |
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