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August 7, 2007

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.Mac gets beefier, better

Posted Aug. 7, ’07, 12:48 PM PT by Cyrus Farivar
Category | Internet

dotmacbox.jpgSo here’s the skinny on the updates to .Mac:

The big news is that the storage space is getting way bumped up from 1 gig to 10 gigs for individual accounts, or to 20 gigs for family accounts.

Further, you can buy an additional 10 gigs of space, which makes .Mac something a little more respectable when compared to — I don’t know —every other web host out there?

But the other exciting announcement is that now .Mac users can also “host their websites at their own personal domain,” which were assuming means that you can turn your homepage.mac.com into myawesomesite.cc, or whatever other TLD you can come up with.

Oh, and there’s also “improved webmail spam filtering,” but we’ll believe that when those AutoC@D emails stop showing up in our inboxes.


5 Comments

Walt said:

It seems to me that it does this via an easy method of redirection. It's the same that I do now, only I don't have to be specific. I let .Mac know what my domain is, so that when traffic from my domain comes through the pipes, it knows what to send. Basically, a non-technical redirect i.e. I don't have to redirect to web.mac.com/fullusername/folder/subfolder/welcome/html - I only redirect to web.mac.com, and mac.com handles the rest. Check it out.

August 7, 2007 1:33 PM
Andrew Robulack said:

lol, thanks for mentioning the AutoC@D spam. It's nice to know I'm not alone in suffering .Mac's shortcomings!

August 7, 2007 1:38 PM
Alix said:

The US .Mac yearly account costs $99 but for the UK it's £59 which is the US equivalent of $139 !


Why ?

August 7, 2007 1:43 PM
Dave-O said:

Because, Alix, the dollar is weak against pounds sterling. You can come to the US and buy many items for less than you'd spend in Britain.

August 7, 2007 2:34 PM
Dave said:

As a former user of .Mac, the bump in storage space is nice, but to me it's pointless unless they fix whatever bottlenecks they have in place. No matter what method I used to upload or whose broadband connection I was using, it was always painfully slow to upload to it. Upload speeds are generally slow anyway, but posting to .Mac was always at a snail's pace in my experience.

August 8, 2007 6:38 AM

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