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Thank you mate!!!
July 1999 -- that's impressive!
I hadn't realized that @MikePT has been in business for so long
Congratulations on your keen observation. :-)
It should read July 2019. Grr...
On that note..
Age (Years) is just a number. In 1999, Miguel's age was probably in single digits but still an an entrepreneur back then. And I still made typos.
Whatever you say. LOL.
I mentioned GD in the first post, you suspected me as a GD undercover agent. Then you suggested SG. I followed your advice and tried SG with my own hard earned money. Then you suspect me again as a SG agent. But SG was your advice! Next day when I order a GD plan, what'd you say then?
SG's price comparing to DO's droplet has no advantage. That is why I just use SG to test WP's skins, addons, etc. It is fast deploy environment. But really shared hosting has no advantage over vps for someone who knows some about server administration.
Just played WP for a while. Seems to me that WP can easily do a job for a personal blog. With free addons, WP can have basic forum and social network capability and some simple personal web store. But WP without paid addons cannot compete with other specialized apps. However, I will not pay for the addons.
Featurewise, I think WP is OK for a personal website without much sweat. The major issue for WP is its very bad security track record.
I think that I know a little why WP is so popular. It helps others to make money. It is like MS DOS at the beginning, it provides a free or low cost platform to attract users. When the customer base is growing huge and locked on this platform, all of the advanced features you have to pay.
So I will stick to true FOSS platform and avoid being locked in this kind of bait platform. I am sure someone will attack me again because I reveal their hidden agenda. I am proud to be linux/drupal/phpbb evangelist. LOL.
It's just weird seeing you talk to yourself is all
It is OK. Better than VYAS attacks me with his color goggles on.
I am having a lot of fun at learning SG and WP for the last several days. This post is more like my learning log. They are good products for a large target population. These people may never have chance to set up their websites without the shared hosting and WP. They should pay for this, just like I paid a lot for my hard lessons on buying hardware parts, on books and courses, etc. LOL.
I doubt that he is that simple. On online forums, there are some undercover agents who use a lot of alias. If you unintentionally speak out the truth and hurt their interests, they will use a hoard of different ids to attack you. It may be just one agent behind all of these ids. I have experienced this kind of situation several times on other forums. Once you detect out the relationships of these ids, you know the true person behind these ids. This is the price to pay when you speak out the truth on forums, because the truth may hurt these undercover agents' personal or business interests. One more thing, because they are undercover agents, they will easily think you are the same as them. LOL.
LETers are typically two types, hackers who love IT, and businessmen who do IT business. Both types are more logic oriented and less emotional. Even there are teenagers here, they are mostly hackers and don't care about other things, only interested in their own matters.
Last week I created a new post asking if OVH dedis can continue two year contract price further. This is a very valid question and currently critically influences my future hosting strategy. Several ids suddenly claimed that I am an undercovered agent. Then in this post, some id even claimed that I am a GD agent, then changed tone that I am a SG agent, this even less does make sense, because I did not know SG at the beginning. This is a very unusual pattern, and very unlikely will happen if this is a normal discussion among several hackers or businessmen. Hackers are logical and indifferent, businessmen are suspicious and self interested. They will not be so emotional, and not be influenced by someone else so easily. The other possibility is much higher, these ids belong to one person, whose interest is hurt by my question, by my even mentioning the name of OVH. It is this simple.
Why did not he claim that I am an OVH agent? Possibly he does not want to expose his purpose too clearly, and not to promote the OVH name in this way.