I've used 1&1 since I started mucking about on the web; they had a cheap plan for $3/month with one domain name and a simple LAMP stack. But the price has been going up (now $5/month; still comparatively cheap!), and I'm starting to chafe at the limitations (no SSH shell access, proprietary 404 pages, no languages beside PHP) and I didn't want to shell out for my own virtual server (Rackspace goes as low as $11/month but I'm really cheap). So I was overjoyed when I found Nearly Free Speech.
Archive for February, 2012
Just got an email from Amazon reminding me that "As part of our continued effort to ensure that the Product Advertising API is an efficient and effective advertising tool, we’ve identified opportunities to streamline the API", which is their way of saying that the API exists to make them money. Anything that doesn't serve that purpose is eliminated, however nice it might be for me. Their right, even if they're not right. I've already taken into account the major changes. The only thing is to change the API version to the most recent; in the aws_signed_request routine, change the $params["Version"] line to read $params["Version"] = "2011-08-01"; and that should be it.
