Today's news and other stuff

18 March 2014

Anno online did come up with a new version today, including a new population growth strategy, detailed resource consumption and accounting, and 3 new epic buildings. While the new pop grows naturally larger without doing anything, as does income, there isn’t much to do actually - the 3 epics must be researched in the library first which will take months. Some new main quests were apparently added too.

Voting for [Anno online][1] has started at the European Game Awards. I would like to vote but unfortunately the site redirects to an error page stating they have been overwhelmed with requests and voting is currently down.

Said overwhelming reminds me of [Github’s recent experience with DDOS attacks] (https://github.com/blog/1796-denial-of-service-attacks) and how they managed. We do really care for the eternal life and health of Github (oh, ok, for Google’s too :P) so it is good to know our free pages are being cared for :)

In other news Redhat announced today its attractive Openshift Bronze subscriber plan. A notch above their free plan, it provides additional storage at $1/1G a month. This made me realize the holy trio of free hosting is shaping up quite well:

Hm, it’s a quartet, holy anyways :). It doesn’t seem very obvious but the thin silver-blue-red line running here is free Haskell hosting. While fpcomplete is totally perfect, it has no free persistent storage, nor free Github integration. Of the above listed only Heroku has free application persistency and supports Haskell, and only OpenShift seems to provide a free database space up to 1G and the means to serve it outside. Heroku offers a free Postgres DB limited to 10K rows only.

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