We just transferred the site to another server to achieve better overall performance, reliability, and an improved control panel. I noticed the difference right away. Do you?

For those that want to know, we moved from 1and1.com to sharkspace.com. While there was nothing horribly wrong with 1and1 lately, SharkSpace has it beat in most categories. 1and1 is cheaper, and it shows. If you’re interested in more details on why we left 1and1 and/or why we chose SharkSpace, hit us with a comment.

Enjoy the now faster Downloadable Suicide — where ending the virtual madness is a click away.

Late last year, before the launch of what would become DoSu 2.0, I went around and checked out a variety of different streaming video hosts. Youtube, the popular choice, wasn’t cutting it in terms of quality and features. After looking at some cross-comparisons and checking out several personally of those that looked good and had the features I wanted, I came away with the following list. Each had their own advantage that we could use for the site.

• Youtube.com — community; you can drive a lot of traffic by uploading videos to this site. They had some pretty good community features, too.
• Stage6.com — quality; there’s no limit to the specifications of video you could create, it just needed to use the divx or xvid codec. It unfortunately required users to install a not quite mainstream divx web player plugin.
• Vimeo.com — ease-of-use; bar none the simplest site to use and probably the prettiest presentation on the video page itself. It even features an HD stream, but that couldn’t be embedded, unfortunately.
• Blip.tv — features; this video host had pretty much everything I wanted from a video host and more.

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