It’s election time in the UK. This will probably not be the last political post I make here in the next few weeks. At least this one is still heavily tech-related. It’s about the Digital Economy Act, which I wrote an angry letter to my MP about. (Incidentally – no response to that latter, although [...]
I just realised that my CentOS hosts don’t have Denyhosts running on them. cPanel is supposed to include some sort of anti-brute-force protection, but I don’t think it’s terribly reliable, since after installing Denyhosts on my main cPanel VM, I received the following in my admin email: Added the following hosts to /etc/hosts.deny: 222.66.76.146 (unknown) [...]
Somewhat late, here’s the run-down on what went wrong with our big upgrade. The executive summary is: very little. Saturday’s hardware upgrades went reasonably well, although we did discover that the hardware just doesn’t like 2GB DIMMs, and caused a minor panic by forgetting to activate the second disk in the BIOS. The RAM issue [...]
I’m on the train to London now, using the internet thanks to National Express including it for free on their trains. I’d be online anyway, since I can always use my phone as a modem (as an aside, that, plus 3G support, are all that’s stopping me from getting an iPhone when my T-Mobile contract [...]
This weekend’s technical dramas have largely been fighting obscure Linux authentication issues in order to get email to work. Authentication and email are two of the most important elements of a good system, but they’re both barely above the level of ‘black art’. Documentation is either scarce or impenetrable and they’re both minefields of complex [...]
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Posted 16 March 2008
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Somewhat ahead of schedule we’re taking on some shared hosting customers. Our plan had been to build a special VM to use as a shared hosting platform after we work on the server at the end of the month, but events overtook us and now I’ve discovered that the shared hosting strategy I came up [...]
