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The problem with that is that it’s not scalable. What you’re talking about is something like Mahalo and there’s certainly a market for that. In terms of something like Google and being able to find and categorize and present to the world in the form of search results, billions and billions of documents, you can’t do that with human editorial oversight. There’s a scalability issue and I don’t think it’s at odds with ethics. Google puts a lot of effort into making sure there’s a positive user experience represented by people finding information that’s meaningful to them and true.

There are some people subverting the system unfortunately. They make it challenging for organizations that feel in the real world, they’re the best answer for a query. But they’re probably doing a crappy job with their web site and Public Relations SEO and need to synch up their real world dominance in the category with how they represent themselves online from a technical, content and linking perspective. That is, if they want to play in Google’s playground.

1: Too Few Databases

All blogging software, all forum software, and darn near every cool Web application you can think of requires a database in order to function. Unfortunately, most shared server packages only offer between 1 and 5 databases, thereby limiting your ability to expand with new sites or to experiment with new ideas.

In my opinion, this is completely unacceptable. If I want to see if I can tie 10 databases into one WordPress installation, then by god, I ought to be able to do that! Sadly, this would be an impossible task with just about every shared server package I’ve ever seen.

Because of this limitation, I have resorted to purchasing more expensive plans that offer more flexibility. Remember my first inadequate server that I told you about earlier? After that terrible experience, I opted for a more expensive server that cost me roughly $550 up front, and the primary reason why I went with the more expensive unit was because I could have unlimited databases.

2: Too Few Domains Allowed

Probably in an attempt to curb spammers, Web hosting companies usually limit the number of domains you can have on a shared server. Oftentimes, the limit is between 1 and 5 domains, but just like with the databases, this really affects your flexibility over time.

Want to start that new site you’ve been thinking of lately? Too bad, you’ll have to buy new hosting because you’ve already maxed out your domains.

Oh, and here’s another gem from the crazy world of Web hosting… I’ve seen shared server accounts before that would let you have 5 domains but only 1 database. If every site on the planet requires a database to run, how the hell can you run 5 domains with only one database?

Sanity? Anyone?

The bottom line—and the thing you really need to know here—is that good shared server plans will offer you at least 20 domains, and even better ones will let you add as many as you like (usually up to 999).

3: Crappy Developer Support

So, that new version of WordPress you want to run requires MySQL 4.0 or higher in order to work properly? What a shame, because your junky shared server only runs MySQL 3.23 and hasn’t been updated since 2005.

Of the three cardinal sins I’ve listed here, this one is probably the easiest to avoid. However, developer support is the ultimate litmus test for any Web host, and you can bet your bottom dollar that if the company you’re looking at doesn’t consider developers a priority (we’re a raucous, complaining bunch), then they damn sure won’t consider you a priority.

No matter what hosting package you’re looking at, make absolutely certain that you see support for the following developer tools:

* PHP
* MySQL
* Ruby on Rails
* Python
* CGI
* .htaccess
* cron jobs

It’s been a month or so since Google’s Desktop Search Application was released. My initial reaction when the software was launched was nervousness. We live in a time of daily security breaches and while I trust Google for the most part I am reluctant to install software that indexes too much as far as I’m concerned. Google’s application indexes data files, including word processing files, spreadsheets, presentations, e-mail messages, cached Web pages and chat sessions. What if it searches your cache and finds bank summaries or personal messages? What if it’s a shared machine and it accidentally shows you someone else’s personal information? I understand that Google found a capability that was missing in Microsoft’s OS and decided to fix it, and for that I applaud their efforts. Unfortunately at this time I’m not willing to take the security risks of installing their application.

If Google can work on this application and fix some of the security breaches I would be happy to install this application. Does it really need to index a computers cache, I personally don’t think so. I think this feature should be removed, and the same holds true for searching other machine user accounts.

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