Jul
04
We have secured a 25% off coupon code for HostGator, readers of this blog and Digitalquill customers can get this 25% discount by using the code ‘Digitalquill’ at the checkout. Although this can not be used for domain names it can be used for all other HostGator services, including WordPress hosting, Web and email hosting …
Jun
26
If you have ready my previous post about a first view of WordPress 3.2, you will have noted that there are some significant requirements changes what is needed to run WordPress 3.2 on your web server. WordPress 3.2 now requires: PHP 5.2.2 or above MySql 5.0 or above The problem with this is how does one …
Apr
05
We have recently had an issue with outlook 2003 working with a new Courier IMAP Server. Connections would be made to the server and emails would be downloaded, however it would then give the following error: Task ‘Checking for new mail in subscribed folders on 123123.co.uk.’ reported error (0x8004DF0B) : ‘Outlook is unable to download …
Jan
19
Something I am always forgetting how to do and have to Google for each time is how to find your Ubuntu version. Open an ssh terminal and type: cat /etc/lsb-release this will then show: DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=”Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS”
Nov
05
Regular readers of this blog will know that I have recently moved all my web hosting to a new provider following a devastating hack of one of my dedicated servers which was hosted with Ultrahosting. I had a bad experience with Ultrahosting support and will not be using them again in the future. I have …
Sep
22
In another post following on from the recent server hacks that I have suffered. I have been researching server security. SSH security is something that I have always been fairly strong on, but I wanted to check I was doing everything possible. Here is a list of things that you should do to improve the …
Sep
10
I run several web servers, some dedicated to clients, some dedicated to specific projects I have running, and one for the affiliate projects I run. I also have one dedicated to running my mail server. The latter two have been suffering from numerous malicious attacks. The email server was hacked a couple of months ago …
Aug
12
Eva is rapidly growing up (2 years and 4 months) and it will not be long before she is surfing the web. She already asks for websites to be brought up, she loves the night garden website and asks ‘press the night garden button’ every time I am sat with the laptop. Although I like …
Jul
31
I recently ran an apt-get update on my Debian Etch server as I wanted to install pSpell for php. I found that the apt repros were out of date. After and Internet search I found that they have been archived. This is worrying that the OS that I am running is now seemingly obsolete but …
Jun
14
As you will have recently ready I am backing up all my media to Amazon S3. My photographs are stored on my Western Digital MyBook World which I have hacked to open up the Linux shell, and as such i use S3Sync on command line to back up my photographs. I have even written a …
