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review, self

Godaddy Web Hosting – Great Service And Support!

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After so many years of using free web hosting providers for my tiny, insignificant blog, I have finally decided to take the plunge and go with a paid hosting plan. Part of the reason is because eversince migrating my blog to the WordPress platform, I started encountering weird limits imposed by free hosting providers… limits which I don’t see in the stats that I have supposedly breached, but the provider says I do. Because I’m on the free plan, I can’t say anything, so I can only suck it up and move on.

Well enough is enough. I decided to look for a hosting provider and I didn’t have to look far. Godaddy.com is where I bought my domain name from, and it also provides hosting services. Comparing prices, Goddady’s were also cheaper than the rest of them. I am only paying about US$40 for 1 whole year of hosting, on the personal economy plan. Typical prices from other providers would be about US$60 to US$120, depending on which hosting provider you go with.

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Why There Shouldn’t Be “An Alternative Government” in Singapore

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Now that elections are coming, and for me personally, the first time I can finally vote since reaching adulthood. I live in an area where, in past elections, the default mode was “walkover”.

For the first time in years, we finally have candidates from ruling party as well as opposition contesting this sacred area. That piqued my interest a little. Now, friends of mine know I generally am apathetic to 2 things – religion and politics. Why I don’t normally touch these 2 topics is because there is no way to win. You have your opinions and you will not be swayed by “proof”, or lack thereof, in these 2 topics. As a quick example on religion – you can’t prove the existence of God, nor can you disprove it. No one knows for sure, with concrete, measurable evidence, whether God exists or he does not exist.

In the same way in politics, or at least as far as Singapore goes. The ones in power usually say things like they have a track record, the opposition are untried and untested etc etc. TRUE, I agree! But, if you don’t get the opposition in, how will they have a track record? How can they be battle-tested?

Then there is this phrase, which has been used in the past but I never thought much about till now. That is “alternative government”. The ruling party has always challenged the opposition to do this, ie form an alternative government, to prove they are sincere and have the capability.

Now, without going to consult dictionaries and other references, what does “alternative government” mean to you, the general layman?

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How-To: Combine 2 ISPs into 1 home network

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In my home, I have 2 ISPs providing internet service – SingNet and Starhub. I won’t get into details as to why I have 2, but the fact is, I have 2.

For a long time, these 2 ISPs have remained separate. PCs and laptops connected to one can’t see the other, and vice versa. When one ISP fails, we’d have to manually go to the router and plug the LAN cable into the other one, to continue having internet service. Now, we’re (meaning the people in my household) are naturally lazy. The thought of having to walk to the routers, sort out which cable is the right one, and plugging it into the other ISP, is a headache that we dread. It was made even more apparent recently when my ISP seemed to be having some minor lag issues with an online game I’m playing, and by swapping my cable over to the other one, I confirmed that the fault lay in the ISP and not in any of my PCs or laptops.

During the troubleshooting, I had to plug, unplug, replug the cables many times, and as you can imagine, it’s tiring.

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