Tag: storage

vBulletin Performance Optimization

October 17, 2008

I have been dealing with vBulletin for almost a year now. I manage a vBulletin installation for my friend at Fashionese Daily forum. Anyway, Fashionese Daily forum have used other forum/discusion engines like punBB and MyBB. It’s now using vBulletin 3.7.3 Patch Level 1. It’s a pretty busy-traffic forum anyway. In average, there are 1,000…
10 Billion Photos Uploaded to Facebook

October 16, 2008

Doug Beaver (Facebook engineer) writes that there are over 10 billion photos uploaded to Facebook! And, here are some statistics: 2-3 Terabytes of photos are being uploaded to the site every day Over one petabyte of photo storage Facebook serves over 15 billion photo images per day Photo traffic now peaks at over 300,000 images…
IDrive for Data Backup Solution

October 8, 2008

Today, I tried a service called IDrive. It’s an online backup service. Why I need this? The reason is simple: I want to keep my data, just to make sure that I have backup for important files. IDrive data provides many options to choose. For example, if I only need less than 2 GB of…
Dropbox might be your solution for file-sharing need

September 15, 2008

Today, I just registered and use a newly open-for-public file-sharing service called Dropbox. That’s right, Dropbox just launched for public few days ago. The first impression: I think I will LOVE it. Here are few features why I think it might be great solution — for me, and I hope for you too. :) It’s…
WordPress 2.6 Features

June 16, 2008

The coming WordPress 2.6 (scheduled to be released on August 7th, 2008, or July 7th, 2008) will have more features. Most of you probably heard that about the probably-most-well-known Post Revisions feature. But, there are some other features that should be highlighted. Here are some of them I find (using WordPress from SVN, revision 8094):…
Upgrade to Flickr pro account

March 3, 2008

Last week, I upgraded my Flickr account. Actually, this is not my personal account, but Orangescale’s account. Lala and I have our own Flickr account. Having two separate account is fine for me. But, if I can combine them, why not? So, if you add my Flickr account, I have to say sorry because I…
Longest Email Address

November 9, 2007

I am not sure whether it’s useful or not, but there is free email service where you can have a very long (again, VERY long) email address. It’s under abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com domain name. Before registering, it’s better to read what it offers (because it’s so long): Some web forms are unable to read your email address…
Google Supports IMAP

October 24, 2007

After giving more storage for its Gmail users (I have 4 Gb of storage right now), Google starts to give IMAP support. Google Help Center already mentioned about Supported IMAP Client List. But it seems that not all accounts got this feature. I checked both in my Gmail and Google Apps, I still haven’t got…
Need extra storage for Gmail and Picasa Web Albums?

August 10, 2007

Now, if you think that you need more storage, and you still want to have Gmail as your primary email service and Picasa Web Albums, you can upgrade your account. Yahoo! Mail already offered unlimited storage, and Flickr also have a pro-account (unlimited storage for $24,95/year). Google’s paid storage will be used across Google service…
Few things you need to know about Yahoo! Photos closing

June 23, 2007

You probably had heard that Yahoo! will close its Yahoo! Photos service on Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 9 p.m. PDT. I have a Yahoo! account but I do not use their Yahoo! Photo service. I use Flickr instead. Here are few notes you’re probably need to know:
I got my Yahoo! Mail unlimited storage

June 2, 2007

I got my unlimited email storage yesterday, I think. This is a good news, and I will use my Yahoo! account on my daily basis. For now, I use Gmail more often than Yahoo! Mail.
UnitedEmailSystems

September 29, 2004

Three GB email storage. (via)