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After 2 unanswered tickets and a unanswered mail, I decided to move away from my current web-hosting and get a new one. I chose servage. Reason? I came across it, it seamed a reasonable price, and above all: No damn CPanel!!!
And while I was at it, I added vstone.eu to my domain-emporium since it might take a while to get vstone.org transferred to my new hosting. You can never have enough domains I suppose.

If you were (by accident) also looking for new hosting and you are concidering servage, make sure you google for a servage coupon code. You could use a coupon code I provide and that will get me (I quote):

Get two FREE months + 25 GB (25000 MB) extra web space when you refer a new customer – they get 25 GB (25000 MB) extra space too!

There, if you are interested in servage with extra web space (why the hell would you need that much web space for a website I wonder), go to servage from this link.

If you don’t care much for space, you could also use the coupon I found at http://www.servagecoupon.net/.
This one will give you a discount of 30% (lifetime). Get it here.

Not many people know about it, but the file hosting service rapidshare.com provides a perl script to upload files to their servers. They distribute it here: http://images.rapidshare.com/software/rsapi.pl.

If you have ever used it, or are trying it out right now, you’ll notice it is but-ugly. The script isn’t meant to be actually used (AFAIK) but is more of a prove of concept where other programmers can base themselves up to write their own applications to upload to rapidshare. I adjusted the script a little to use myself. Nothing changed in the internals, but I added a progress meter and upload speed.

A small example of the output now is:

[  1%]    896000 of  71061919 bytes sent at [Current/Global:  73.80 /  63.05 (KB/s)]
[  1%]   1024000 of  71061919 bytes sent at [Current/Global:  58.13 /  62.30 (KB/s)]
[  1%]   1152000 of  71061919 bytes sent at [Current/Global:  63.66 /  62.46 (KB/s)]
[  1%]   1280000 of  71061919 bytes sent at [Current/Global:  58.37 /  61.98 (KB/s)]

Upload Speed statistics may be a bit of. it’s more of an indication anyway…

The source of my ‘hardly’-improved version can be found here:
Rapidshare Perl API (Improved) (Zip File).

I’m writing this to make sure that the plugins I’m setting up are actually working. Let’s see how this goes:

/*
* A small test class to see how Geshi works this.
* Hope I won't have to tweak it too much...
*/
public class TestMarkup() {
 
  public static void main (String[] args) {
    System.out.println("Hello World");
  }
}