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Apple is now accepting iPad apps for a “grand opening” of the iPad App Store, according to an email just sent to registered developers.
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Security Expert: “Mac OS X Is Safer, But Less Secure”

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Tech site H-Online has an interesting story today, quoting security expert Charlie Miller about his forthcoming talk at the CanSecWest conference next week.
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Housekeeping: Don’t Mind The Meltdown! Cultofmac.com is Moving To New Host

laughing_squid_logo Pay no attention to the glitches and errors! We’re moving to a new host.

I’m in New York with my family on a work vacation (I work, they vacation), and  have just spent a miserable week sweating in my skivvies in a hot, humid Harlem apartment trying to move this site to a new host.

You may have suffered from a few database errors this week and last. It was so bad on Thursday, a couple of readers on Twitter suspected we were under DDoS attack, like Twitter itself that day. We weren’t, but we were being hit by spam bots — and still are. There was a big spike in spam traffic last week and a huge one this week. See the chart below.

Whether the spam is causing the database errors or not, I don’t know. I suspect it’s a combination of the spam, the growing traffic and the crumminess of the current host. As we’ve grown, we’ve attracted hack attacks that infected the site with spam and Windows viruses. The support has been hopeless, which is what you get with the cheapest hosting plan on the planet. It’s time to move up to a bigger, better host.

We’re moving to Laughing Squid of San Francisco. It’s a local, independently owned firm, run with quiet competence by the redoubtable Scott Beale (Here’s Scott’s great Laughing Squad blog). Laughing Squid is home to a lot of companies and people I like and admire. It’s plugged into the tech and arts community, and renowned for its support and reliability.

I did most of  the moving work myself, so fully expect it to melt down. In fact, I’ll flip out if it works. If you’re reading this, it must have worked. So fingers crossed, and please let us know if you spot anything that needs fixing. Thanks for your patience.

– Leander.

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Leander Kahney

Leander Kahney is the editor of Cult of Mac, and author of three books about technology culture: Inside Steve’s Brain, the New York Times bestseller about Steve Jobs; Cult of Mac; and Cult of iPod. Leander has written for Wired, MacWeek, Scientific American, and The Guardian in London. Follow Leander on Twitter @lkahney and Facebook.

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5 comments

    Cult of Mac and not hosted on Xsereve?

    We’ll wait it out… No worries.

    That Laughing Squid logo is one of the coolest company logo’s I’ve ever seen. =P

    Glad one of my favorite sites is moving to one of my favorite hosting specialists, LaughingSquid!


    Robert Taylor
    Sr System Engineer
    Rackspace Hosting

    Glad to hear you’re moving. I’ll be glad to see all those database connection problems disappear!

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