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Monthly Archives March 2008

The Plan

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 [...]

Posted 29 March 2008 † John § Hardware § Hosting § Xen ‡ Comments (0) °

Obscure

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 [...]

Posted 16 March 2008 † John § Hosting ‡ Comments (0) °

All Systems Go

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 [...]

Posted 09 March 2008 † John § Business § Hosting ‡ Comments (0) °