Yougetsignal is an interesting service with set of tools for checking network ports, reverse IP domain check etc.
Port Forwarding Tester: With this you can check your external IP address and detect open ports on your connection. Useful for finding out if your port forwarding is setup correctly or if your applications are blocked by [...]

Yahoo is now offering unlimited web hosting starting from today, announced as Introducing all-you-can-eat web hosting. That means now you can have the benefits of unlimited web hosting for 11.95/month.
First of all this is a shared hosting and which gives you

Unlimited data transfer
Unlimited disk space
Unlimited email storage
1000 email accounts
Free Domain Name

The folks at dreamhost once again proved why their hosting sucks. To make the story short, the technical staff at dreamhost went ahead and blocked Google bot accessing my site. How did they do it, they added deny rule for IP range of google bot to my htaccess file. Google bot is unable to access [...]