Welcome to the New-Look ‘Know Your Dallas Cowboys’
By Matt Cordon (kh). Filed in Dallas Cowboys News in Brief |
Here’s a short lesson in choosing a hosting company for your blog. Consider these two options:
Hosting Company #1
Fee: $47.20 annually
Disk space: 300 Megabytes
Data transfer: 15 GB/month
Max domains: 3
Email accounts: 20
Down time experience: The site went down at least a couple of times per month. Moreover, the site seemed to go down most frequently when I actually had pretty good traffic. For instance, I had about 2,000 visitors last year on the day when Deadspin linked to my Dallas Cowboys Christmas video. It would have been about 3,000 had the site not continued to go down all day.
Hosting Company #2
Fee: $71.40 annually
Disk space: 300 GB
Data Transfer: 3,000 GB/month
Max domains: Unlimited
Email accounts: Unlimited
Downtime: I have a few periods of downtime, but no more than 10 minutes or so.
I also decided to go with a new format, because as my wife said, the old one looked like it was trying to cater to a teenaged crowd. And when you are including posts with stats and trivia from the 1970s, it probably isn’t a good idea to try to cater to a teenaged crowd. Anyway…
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A few stories in brief:
* Brad Sham has a good piece about new cornerback Joey Thomas’ second chance. Thomas was a second-round pick by Green Bay in 2004 but was released midway through the following season. He was out of football in 2006 before Dallas signed him in January.
* According to Calvin Watkins, Julius Jones is out to prove that he is an elite back. I tend to think he will prove that is a valuable back, but I’ve been very wrong before.
* I’ve been concerned all off-season about the Cowboys’ lack of depth at wide receiver (though, of course, Dallas has some raw talent there). However, the bigger concern may be the lack of depth at nose tackle, given that Jason Ferguson is the team’s only experienced player.
* According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Terence Newman has been practicing at wide receiver.
* And lastly, you’ve probably seen the story that former Cowboys coach Barry Switzer is joining Fox to spar with Jimmy Johnson during the pregame show. If only Hall of Fame voters liked former Cowboys the way that Fox does…
Thursday, August 16th 2007 at 12:18 am
Looks good.
Poke