Well, after 6 (six) months of failed negotiations, crocked hosters, time wasted on setting up hosted platforms we finally said "enough is enough". I will write about it in more details in one of the future blogs, but suffice to say if you are anything more than an average Joe bringing up a site to host pictures of kids for granma and granpa to see then the hosting industry is something to be avoided, at all costs. The blog that you are reading now is hosted on OUR Dell 1850 server which we procured and placed inside a rented 2U rack in Vancouver (Canada) colo center. Now you can read this blog again and I can demo and deliver my applications and solutions without having to deal with abusive hosters' firewalls and without having to explain that port 80 is not the only port in existence. More importantly I can send confidential emails to my clients without having to trust the very same hosters and their underpaid employees not to tamper or steal information via "smarthosts".

Either way, the nightmare seems to be over and the blog is up, I am still setting up the server environment (in addition to working, raising the kid and doing my MBA dissertation), so bare with me a bit while I start writing this baby up.