Status notes go out on all three. The middle one is read by nobody.
Shared accounts, virtual servers, and as of this year a cloud. The cloud is a room. It has a door, and somebody who works here has the key to that door.
Softaculous went on the panels in the autumn and installs the same four things Fantastico installs, in a third of the clicks. Fantastico De Luxe is still there; people have bookmarks.
corvus was virtualised in March. The disk image is 2.1 GB and boots in eleven seconds, which is faster than it ever managed as furniture.
Two rooms. Machines in the second one are copies of machines in the first, and the copying is the part we actually sell. The header of this page has weather on it because that is the convention this year.
Power, disks and people, in that order, and the third is not the smallest. Two employees of a pizza company did more with a camera in April than any disk here ever has, and the company spent December on camera apologising for its own pizza. We have written something down about cameras.
Dedicated machines, a second rack for the copies, and named people on the account. The SOAP and WSDL endpoints published for last year's enterprise pilot are still up and still answer. Two accounts call them, and we know which two.
Every one of these has Perl 5.10 on it and will keep it. The third column is drawn a tenth larger because most accounts end up in it, which is a fact about the accounts rather than about the column.
| SlopHost | GeoCities | Ning, free tier | Vox | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Your own domain on it | Yes | Not on the free one | Yes | Yes |
| A shell on the machine | On a virtual server | No | No | No |
| Take the files off whenever you like | FTP, SSH or rsync | There was a fortnight | Not stated | An export, of a kind |
| Answers to a parent company | No | Yes, since 1999 | No | Yes |
| Taking new accounts in December | Yes | Closed on 26 October | Yes, free | Yes |
Compiled from published material on 7 December. GeoCities is left in because our first page was written to look like one and is still on this server. Sun Microsystems, which bought MySQL AB, was itself bought in April, and Brussels has spent the autumn thinking about the database.