Created by a small team of people passionate on making web applications that blows, DropBoks. Believe it or not, this simple web tool gives each account holder a total of 1GB of space. No strings attached. Though each file uploaded has a maximum of 50MB, you can always split up larger files. The speed taken to upload a file is pretty impressive.

Another good thing is that you can upload any file format. Be it mp3s, family pictures, blog backup files.. anything.. really. And if you’d ever need to keep more than 1GB, creating another account is also another super simple task. Just your email, password, and agreement terms. I took only 10 seconds to create an account. 10 SECONDS. I love it.

And if you wanna upload a LOT of files together, you can with just a click of the mouse on the “+” sign below the upload textbox. I’ve already tried adding 20 over lines of textboxes to the page and no problem. Good stuff.

This site brings so much value to it’s users that I’m sure it’ll expand very fast. I’m not sure how their performance might be like in say, 6 months time. More people = more bandwidth. More bandwidth = more money. They’ve stated on their website that they hate ads. So revenue stream comes from donation by the users. Very generous of them. Let’s hope that they can continue to provide valuable service endlessly.

Here’s a screenshot of the super simple DropBoks :

Hope on over to DropBoks to check it out now! =)

As we all know that to operate in today’s business world, we’ll need a domain name that is at least somehow related to our brand, product or company name. Now here’s an interesting write up by NextWebGen on the 10 worst domain names ever . There’s a compiled list of 10 out of this world domain names that will tickle you to the bone.

I will list down 5 of my favourites

1. There was once this nursery called the Mole Station Nursery based in New South Wales who had the domain name of :

molestationnursery.com

2. Now here’s an Italian Power Generator company called..

powergenitalia.com

3. Every celebrity has a representative agent. This site keeps track of the names of the agents who represents them..

whorepresents.com

4. If you EVER need a therapist, get one at

therapistfinder.com

5. The mother of all domain names award goes to this website where you can get custom made pens *drumroll*

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penisland.com

“So, basically, I got hacked by my own host. No, it wasn’t a mistake. No, the server didn’t just go down. They hacked it so that they could upsell me on some $2000 security audit and package! So here is the evidence.”

Wow. What a story. What a lousy host. Earlier, I did a posting on choosing the top picked hosts by users. It will surely help to avoid situations like this. The guy mentioned above didn’t even have his website listed in google nor in the index of any other search directory. I guess I would also be suspicious on how would anyone hack a family website like his. It doesn’t piss anyone off and it is totally private.

He did a good job by finding out the IP of the person who logged into his account using ‘Webalizer’ (a component found in cpanel). Immediately he reported to the hosting company. They found out that there was this part time employee whose other job was at the very security company that was trying to sell the security product. The host gave a refund and offered to host 1 year for free but was declined.

I guess the moral lesson is to choose your host carefully. I like mine so far. =)

Hacked by Own Host! Be Careful!
The blog of the person who got hacked