What was the traffic threshold for switching over to servint? Sorry for personal questions. If you want to reply by email, by all means.

Yes, I still have an account with lunarpages, and have installed blogs on them for other bloggers. As you mentioned, MDJ is on servint right now due to increased traffic, but lunar is fine for a smaller site.

Just wondering if you guys are still using Lunarpages? I noticed in the footer here at MDJ a hosting company called ServInt which I assume FT has switched over to because of increased growth. Just wondering if you could shed a little light to a fellow blogger.

Thanks and continued success to you!

I’ve always said if you are going to go into business, choose either end of the scale: 1) a “McBusiness” that sells a billion widgets a year for $0.50 each, or 2) a “Trumpness” that sells a crazy high-quality, insanely priced widget. Forget the middle.

1) Like McD’s, the masses will buy your product and you will be wealthy. The bigger the lower-class becomes, the more people there will be to buy your widget. There’s a reason Buffett bought Coke and Gillette.

2) The ultra-rich are pretty much recession/downturn proof. They will spend the money on what they want regardless of economic conditions. So make something they want and only they can afford, then sell 1 a year.

Unfortunately, I have no ideas for #1 or #2. Harmonica holster maybe?

One big complaint I have is that you set the amount of memory etc that you want to pay for – it is then burstable to I think 50% more than what you set. If you get a big rush then you might need more than that even but you need to increase the settings manually – unless you are spending all day looking at your traffic then it’s pretty useless. I’d like for them to just increase the memory automatically to suit the traffic.

Like everything else with blogging – it’s very difficult to properly measure if something is working/worth it or not. :)

I thought that during a recession, the lower end retailers typically do better because people don’t have the money to spend at the more expensive stores. When the economy is humming along really well, the Walmarts tend to lag behind the luxury retailers (Coach, Tiffany’s, Rolls Royce, etc.)

I’m quite excited at the market potential right now. Some of my Canadian stocks have reached my target prices for purchase and many of the international stocks are below. But China looks like it has plenty of room to drop. One stock I’m following is on its way to its 8th lower close in 11 days during which it has lost over 20%.

I’m hopeful that the Canadian financials will go through one last plunge before I can invest in them but I may have missed my best opportunity just 2 months ago. Even so, I wouldn’t be surprised that an investment in the Financial subindex in Canada would be up around 40% within 3 years.