Being struck with the problem of finding a host for myScoop that’s not going to cost me an arm and a leg in terms of bandwidth use, I have decided to explore some of South Africa’s hosting companies and compare their prices with each other. Note that I have used their middle to premium packages to calculate their cost per megabyte for this exercise and all servers are local. Here are the results:
Archive | February, 2010
Are we living in a giant cosmic hologram?
For years, the scientists at the German GEO600 experimental facility have been baffled by an inexplicable “noise”. The GEO600 experiment is home to a detector that stretches for 600 metres which is supposed to detect gravitational waves – ripples in space-time thrown off by super-dense astronomical objects such as black holes and neutron stars. Since the birth of this experiment, none of these gravitational waves have been detected, instead, they may have made the most important discovery in physics for the past 50 years.
Top SA Blogs – Jan 2010
Open Flash Charts and other changes installed on myScoop
I’m sure you agree, the old Google charts that myScoop was using looked quite plain and tacky. I recently installed Open Flash Charts and what a difference it has made to the look and feel of the site.
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