Recently Zone Alarm has been disabling all web traffic via browsers regardless of the program permissions assigned. Programs such as itunes, virus scanners etc all connect fine except for browsers such as Firefox, Internet Explorer etc.
Zone Alarm is discovered as the culprit because when it’s disabled, the internet works. When it’s re-enabled, the internet stops [...]
Is it time to panic now, and call in the internet police? After all, i’ve just gone into cPanel and discovered that an IP has been added to my Remote MySQL Database Hosts. 192.168.1.% - who is this wildcard, are they accessing my private MySQL data? How did they get access to my cPanel? I’m [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Quite recently a lot of traffic to sites under my control is apparetly, acccording to Awstats etc, arriving via the search term “Abmany”. A quick scan of the code reveals tha
t this word is completely devoid of my text, so the mystery deepens. Why are people crazed on Abmany ( is it some sort of [...]
You may figure that when your webserver suffers an outage, that you loose e-mail that is being sent to you. This is not the case. When someone tries to send an e-mail to an address that is having trouble, in all standards compliant mailers the system acknowledges that the recipient computer is unresponsive and queues [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Whether it be your business, the application that monitors life support on your pet squirrel or simply e-mail that you need to have high availability, shared hosting is not the answer.
There is no way any shared host can achieve near to 100% availability, the problem is the variables involved. You have potentially hundreds of users [...]
Whoop, whoop! Somebody phone the internet police!
Virtuozzo Power Panel states that your http service is down. All hands on deck, panic stations, this is going to be a long, hard, cold, yet surprisingly moist war of attrition against whatever force does negative things to our httpd processes…
Yet, wait… when I look in my [...]
Less detail on where i’ve been for the past few weeks…
…and more focus on the main conundrum of the century, which is, why, when following Apache’s own suggestions for adding new mime types via htaccess, do my mime types not work at all?
The following line in your htaccess should force the download of any files [...]
We recently had a problem with a home connection router whereby the Internet connection would periodically drop. When the problem first appeared, the duration between the drops in connectivity was 20 minutes. However, this has gradually been increasing until connectivity was only sustainable for 6 seconds before the dreaded stop start dance routine [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )random musings, server management, personal gratification, pigeon pie // with love
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