Sysadmin-ish tech stuff. Anything from server/package tips and tweaks to fixing broken OS issues.
Running a web host is great fun. It requires expert tech skills, a real passion for learning, and a liking for people. But it also requires some hefty investigation and journalism skills too; not every answer can be had from Google and ChatGPT! What happened? Over the past few weeks Read more…
SSDs are great, aren’t they? Super-fast and very reliable. But they’re also very expensive for relatively small sizes when compared to hard disks. I mean, a 1TB SSD is around the same price as a 6TB HDD! Saving as much space as possible, whilst retaining high levels of performance, is Read more…
This crazy mind of mine was wondering whether it was technically possible to have two IPs per NS record, when hosting DNS data. Example: hosteddomain.com Pointing to nameservers: ns1.dnshost.com ns2.dnshost.com dnshost.com dig ns1.dnshost.com A 127.0.0.1 A 127.0.0.2 Crude example, but hopefully you get the point. hosteddomain.com points to ns1 and Read more…
As you may be aware, we have permanently pulled all Windows Servers and related Microsoft products from our inventory. While there are many reasons for this decision, they all stem back to one primary; licensing disagreements. Microsoft created “SPLA” (Services Provider License Agreement), a programme which legally allows software and Read more…
Ok, so I haven’t blogged at all in a LONG time… but now, it’s time. This post might be a bit odd and is likely not to others’ tastes, but it’s not meant to be for everyone – more of a personal notepad that I’m making publicly available. So, this Read more…
Heh, this made me giggle! I’m sure you’ve heard of CloudFlare? Ya know, the company that gives you access to a free CDN, and claims your web site will have greater security and uptime. In fact, they say they’ll “keep the static portions of your site online even if your Read more…