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Sunday, October 25th, 2009
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First a confession - I tried to 'go stingy' and put Lolyco.com on a XS-128 (128MB RAM) VPS at XenSmart, and it really didn't work. It was initially OK, but after a few visitors, it had filled up both the ...
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Saturday, September 19th, 2009
While testing a Java-based mail server I've been working on, I noticed I could no longer send email from my Streamyx email account. I never use it, except for testing, or to delete the spam that builds up from TM Net, so it has been a while.
TM's 'Setting Up SMTP ...
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
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That'll teach me to be a cheapskate! Poditronic.com and spider.my are both served from my desk. DNS for my ADSL-conected (dynamic IP) server is free from ZoneEdit. Spider.my has a special feature on its homepage that checks the site's connectivity to the Internet. The ...
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
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I'm an eternal optimist. I went to the UK a few weeks ago for a party with some old friends in Lancaster, but stayed first with my parents on Canvey Island. Canvey Island has its detractors, but I grew up there and ...
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
I see other people posting complaints about TM's DNS servers from time to time but had never suffered a problem specifically with DNS before this week. Since the weekend, browsing the Internet via Streamyx has been painful. Lots of websites simply don't load.
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I ...
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