{"id":2646,"date":"2010-04-06T19:28:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T18:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/216.22.14.232\/?p=2646"},"modified":"2015-09-09T19:37:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T11:37:38","slug":"the-new-look-darknet-a-new-vps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2010\/04\/the-new-look-darknet-a-new-vps\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Look Darknet &#038; A New VPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ad]<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve been reading regularly you would have probably noticed unavailability or extreme loading times during March. Anyway, it was about time I updated the look of the site and the functionality needed implementing properly so I took the change to put up a new theme and fix any inefficient parts of the old setup. So the server problems (and horribly slow handling of the problems by the &#8216;managed VPS&#8217; company) led me to change server and pushed me to update the theme with a newer one that suites the latest version of WordPress better.<\/p>\n<p>I had been using that dear old Tonus theme since 2004, it was getting a little worn around the edges.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/images\/darknet_2009.png\" alt=\"Darknet 2009\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And well here we are, April 2010 a new look for Darknet. A wider column, more modern look and larger text for my old eyes. Layout wise I tried to keep as similar to the old layout as possible so people didn\u2019t get lost, and well the layout was fine I think.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway I&#8217;m gonna leave it for a few days without updating and I hope there is no bugs. New server is likely to be faster for most people (but sadly is slower for me over here in Asia).<\/p>\n<p>I looked around for quite a while and found the top 3 managed VPS providers to be <a href=\"http:\/\/knownhost.com\/\">KnownHost<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiredtree.com\/managedvps\/\">WiredTree<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.servint.net\/index.php?refid=EEA183097644\">ServInt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the end <a href=\"http:\/\/www.servint.net\/index.php?refid=EEA183097644\">ServInt<\/a> seemed to be the best option, having been around the longest and having some customer testimonials from people who have been with them 6 years! Now that is impressive, plus they give a little hardware for the buck.<\/p>\n<p>Feature wise, not much different &#8211; main thing is the site now supports threaded comments so you can reply to each other properly and I can reply to you.<\/p>\n<p>If you spot anything wrong\/any bugs\/mistakes\/odd looking tidbits or general nonsense do drop me a line and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/contact-darknet\/\">let me know<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense#New468--><\/p>\n<p>DNS is a funny thing so you might alternate between seeing the old site and the new site for a couple of days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad] If you\u2019ve been reading regularly you would have probably noticed unavailability or extreme loading times during March. Anyway, it was about time I updated the look of the site and the functionality needed implementing properly so I took the change to put up a new theme and fix any inefficient parts of the old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[180,179,3231,2428,89],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Darknet","author_link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/author\/darknet\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}