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STOP IT. Stop it right now — “Nobody says you have to convert your whole site to be iPhoney. But your lockout of non-iPhone users is worse than rude. It’s stupid.” Media Temple has an iPhone only page. An attempt to login to my account via Firefox garners: “Sorry, this is an iPhones-only club. Please come back from your iPhone browser.” But not everyone drank the Koolaid, guys. There’s only a few hundred thousand iPhones out there, not tens of millions.
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I thought it a rather odd devotion of resources. I just can’t imagine that a significant percentage of their users are iPhoners. Or that the limited feature set of that “control panel” would be of much use. Unless you like to reboot your server from your car or something. Which may be a moving violation in some states.
Also ironic that this page is now showing a Google Ad for the Blackberry.
I dunno, Reid. It might be kind of cool for things like flipping DNS switches without having to get out of bed.
Yes, last night that could have been useful.
But I don’t expect to need that ability again for a very very long time.
Yeah, I know. Just joshin’.
I appreciate your tips and imagine I’ll eventually find them useful. Glad to see it’s all in order — not too shabby at all, considering. I know it’s not much of a benchmark but, overall, your site seems a little ‘snappier’. Maybe even a lot. On this moderately slow connection components that use to load, now pop right into place.
It’s not “a little.” It’s “a lot” snappier. But most importantly, I am no longer subject to the whims of demi-programmers bringing Apache/MySQL to its knees on the old shared server. It was intermittent, but when it was bad, it was bad.
Now I have a mere 14 server-mates, and my own 300MB of RAM. Well worth a weekend of work spent migrating.
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Don’t tell anyone, but that was the page that pushed me over the edge. “...this is an iPhones-only club…” Gah!