Yup, judul di atas tidak salah. Melalui Google App Engine, Google menawarkan bandwidth, database, dan penyimpanan file secara gratis. Layanan tersebut masih berupa preview, sehingga tidak semua orang dapat mencicipinya sekarang – saya juga masih menunggu dibuatkan account oleh Google.

Website Anda akan menggunakan server performa tinggi milik Google sehingga tidak perlu lagi susah-susah membayar hosting lagi jika website Anda tidak melebihi batas, yaitu disk space sebesar 500 MB dan “bandwidth yang cukup untuk 5 juta pageview (tampilan halaman) per bulan” (angka matinya 10GB). Kebutuhan bandwidth atau space tambahan dapat dibeli dari Google (walaupun dalam edisi preview, hal ini belum bisa dilakukan). Jumlah ini SANGAT BANYAK untuk web hosting gratis. Sebagai perbandingan, blog ini hanya menggunakan space sekitar 40 MB dan bandwidth tidak sampai 1 GB per bulan.

Website yang dibuat dengan layanan ini dapat menggunakan nama domain sendiri seperti leapon.net, atau dapat menggunakan subdomain gratis di bawah appspot.com (misalnya leon.appspot.com). Read more »

I don’t have a credit card and am unemployed, so web hosting has always become a problem for me. This condition forced me to look for free web hosting services since I ever considered learning web development. It was a rather unhappy odyssey – posting boringly in forums, whining for account approval, moving hosts here and there (probably more than five times)...

Journeys, however, always award us with invaluable experiences. Here I outline 7 characteristics of a successful free web hosting service, based purely on my knowledge (some of these may apply to paid hosting as well): Read more »

Today I noticed Qassia, a website so ambitious to be a knowledge repository – directly rivaling Wikipedia. What I really like about it is that it will credit the people who wrote in the knowledge, paying off your hard work instead of throwing it away to the society like Wikipedia (it’s not that charity is evil, but most people want to be known). The website says,

Qassia is fantastic because you get credit for sharing your intelligence. The more credit you earn, the better your websites will rank. And you get a backlink to your website for every intel you add – only Qassia gives you unlimited quality backlinks.

In other words, you can quality backlinks (perfect for SEO) by adding up more intelligence to the website. Also, they offer a revenue sharing scheme, which may give a boost on Google Adsense earnings.

If the concept of Qassia really rocks, it can be the next best thing after Wikipedia. It can also really build up money and fame if done right. Currently it is in closed beta, but feel free to use my Quassia invitation/invite! Let’s try this one and see whether it will work wonders.

Sure, Firebug and Web Developer extensions for Firefox can do a lot of tricks. However, I have found that these web services are very useful in common web development tasks, and solve common tasks not accomplished by the extensions mentioned above.

Visual PageRank: PageRank is the measure of the popularity of a page used by Google – everybody wants high PageRank because it means that the page can generate lots of traffic from Google. You can view individual PageRanks with Google Toolbar, but it is daunting to check every pages in your website with the toolbar. Visual Pagerank provides an overlay on top of your website, showing the Pagerank of pages linked from a specified URL. Read more »

After much consideration, the blog finally moved from leon.info.tm to leapon.net. Big cheers to myself :)

Why leapon.net?

Choosing a domain name is hard task, especially because most great names were already taken by somebody else. For example, I cannot buy leon.net because it is owned by another person (ugh! I want that one!). Buying the name from the person would be very expensive, so I had to come out with an original name. (Not so original – In fact, leapon.com is already registered! Thank God they don’t take the .net along when they were registering the .com.)

The second reason is that leapon is an anagram of “Leon A. P.”. I like anagrams :D

Leap On also has quite a meaning that I like. Probably it is not a grammatically correct English construct, but it refers to something high and powerful. It exudes optimistic thinking. I hope that we all can always be optimistic in our life! Read more »

Akhirnya website CC Cup 2008 yang sebenarnya sudah bisa diakses. Sebelumnya ada sedikit masalah dengan nameserver, sehingga baru jadi sekarang.

Website sementara yang terdahulu sudah di-redirect ke sana.

Website Canisius College Cup (CC Cup) 2008 sementara sudah bisa dilihat. Nantinya kami akan menggunakan domain asli .com/.net/.org, tetapi karena belum dibeli jadi pakai domain ini dulu.

Seharusnya hosting dilakukan di host milik Kanisius sekarang, cuma masalahnya hostnya sudah tidak jelas lagi aral melintangnya. Jadilah untuk sementara saya yang harus menanggung beban bandwithnya. Asal jangan lewat kuota bandwith… (kalau lewat, website ini juga ikutan down deh… tidaaaak)