PHP 5.2 has support for showing the percentage uploaded for a file upload in progress. If you're not running Apache as your web server,

Drupal's FileField module automatically detects for and uses upload progress support on the server end. This can either be APC (Alternative PHP Cache) with rfc1867 support or with the uploadprogress PECL extension. In Drupal, the upload progress bar looks like this:

You can check to see if you already have support by going to admin/reports/status.

If the report shows that your server has support yet FileField CCK fields aren't updating the upload progress bar then your server has a problem.

I used to run a hosting company back in the states. I wouldn't want to get into that business again as it's capital-intensive (for a tech company) and highly competitive.

Looking at the server colocation market in Vietnam it seems small and expensive for what you get, and maybe there is far more demand from Vietnam-based businesses to host in the US because that's where their customers are. But companies that aim for the domestic market need to consider hosting locally since the Internet link to the US is relatively narrow and expensive with high latency.

When I searched for colocation servers in Vietnam, the #1 result, vn84.com, was down; webhosting.com.vn's account has been suspended; aacecom.net is now a parked domain just showing ads. Not very good results.

After distilling the first 100 or so results on Google:

Conclusion: FPT is definitely a stable business, yet prices aren't out of line, with higher upload speeds. It's always best to avoid anything priced in USD since the Vietnam dong is certainly going to weaken against the dollar soon. But even the cheapest colo at 1.3 million VND is more than I can lease a dedicated server for in the US.

So how much are dedicated servers at these places?

Oddly, for pavietnam.com the price to lease a dedicated server is cheaper than to buy and colo your own!

Virtual Private Servers are another option. Let's compare:

They come out to roughly a third of the cost to colo. You'd be better off finding a friend to chip in and get pavietnam's dedicated server deal.

UPDATE April 3, 2012:
There are a lot of small providers in Vietnam outside of the big ones listed above. If you want to check some out, many even have free trials. Check out the forum at vn-zoom.com if you can read Vietnamese.

For colocation, Viettel's IDC "Sóng Thần" datacenter in Binh Duong is the largest in Vietnam, and possibly all of southeast Asia.

When considering Singapore as an alternative hosting center, be aware that generally prices for VPSs in Singapore are significantly higher than what you would pay in the US, while latency is still around an order of magnitude (10x) that of a Vietnam-based host, while still 1/2 to 1/3 of a North American host. YMMV.

Pliggmeme Redux is a slightly modified, debugged and fixed, and despammed version of the Pliggmeme theme for Pligg. The original Pliggmeme was inspired by Tweetmeme and based on skins4webs's Silverbullet theme. The new Pliggmeme was made for the Detroit Institute of Techno.

Some shady hidden spam was removed, some JavaScript was fixed, and you can actual submit stories and make comments now. This works with Pligg 1.1.3.

Attachments: 

pliggmeme.zip

pliggmemedit.png

If, after upgrading from an old version of Pligg to 1.1.2, you notice that the front page is sorted completely backwards and you can't change the sorting even by fiddling with the sort-query code in index.php, it may be because of the new Groups feature. A new groups table has been added and all queries join this table but the Pligg upgrader only creates the table and sets the new link_group_id to 0 for all rows in links. The solution is to populate the groups table. An easy way is to head to groups/submit/ and create a generic catchall group. Then in your database, change the group_id for the newly created row in groups to 0 (if it's 1).

If the Pligg group submitter is broken (as Pligg is prone to be buggy) then just:
INSERT INTO groups (group_id) VALUES (1);

Now those queries like:

SELECT link_id FROM links LEFT JOIN groups ON links.link_group_id = groups.group_id WHERE link_status='published' AND (groups.group_privacy!='private' OR ISNULL(groups.group_privacy) OR groups.group_id IN(1)) GROUP BY link_id ORDER BY link_published_date DESC, link_date DESC LIMIT 0,10

will work again!