Posts Tagged internet
Moving an Exchange 2003 server to another location with minimal risk and disruption?
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on April 14, 2010
So our Exchange server is located in our office building. This made sense at the time because that’s where the users are. Over time though, this has proved problematic for a few reasons. Primarily, our office is certainly not a datacenter and doesn’t offer the amenities of one – clean, reliable power, and redundant cooling. In an average year we lose power probably 10-15 times, often for an hour or more. The rest of our production environment is hosted in a top-tier datacenter, so after a while I started to wonder why our Exchange server wasn’t there, and making plans to move it there. Oh, and did I mention I’m not an Exchange admin in any sense of the term? I just inherited the Exchange server about 2 months ago.
Passwordless SSH Everywhere
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on March 30, 2010
I’ve known about ssh keys for a long time and frequently use them, most frequently so that a script can transfer a file between two servers without having to do some mumbo-jumbo where I try to pipe a password into it or some other wacky thing. I hadn’t fully embraced ssh keys, though, because I didn’t like the idea that if I lost my laptop, I’d be losing a free key into my servers. Then I discovered ssh-agent. This isn’t new, so I’m kind of embarrassed I didn’t know about it, but I’ve been using it for a few months now and I can’t imagine going back.
Lotsa downtime.
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on March 18, 2010
Lots of power outages lately. Not the greatest time to move my site. 
Good thing I don’t need 99.99%+ uptime. Or even 95%…
Sped up WordPress by adding 1 index.
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on March 17, 2010
I noticed WP was taking a long time to load since I moved it. I added an index to the “autoload” column on wp_options and it seems to be much faster.
I still hate MySQL though. Postgres is so much better.
Website is moved.
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on March 16, 2010
I left Bluehost. They raised the prices (which seems to fly counter to what one would expect in the hosting industry with Google Apps breathing down their necks), and I realized I didn’t need it anyway. My MX records go right to Google. Anyway, time to go to sleep.
Cablevision loses WABC (Channel 7)?
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on March 7, 2010
Wow. Glad I left. I imagine this will be temporary (like the HGTV ordeal earlier this year).
On another note, I got my 3rd FiOS bill – still running a credit. That’s $43 for 3.5 months of great service. Good luck competing with that, Optimum.
2nd FiOS connectivity problem
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on February 13, 2010
This is the second time this has happened: All the wifi devices in my house lose their connection to the FiOS router/access point (ActionTec MI424WR-GEN2). I checked my wired desktop and it wasn’t able to get an IP from the DHCP server (the router). The “Internet” light on the router was out. I unplugged the router and plugged it back in and it came back up fine. But this happened about a month ago too – I wonder if it’s a monthly thing? Either way, it’s annoying. Other than this, the internet service is phenomenal still.
Got my second FiOS bill
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on February 12, 2010
So I got my second FiOS bill a couple of weeks ago. After the issue with my first bill was straightened out I ended up paying about $43 for the first 6 weeks of service. Well, my second bill was about $90, but applied a $180 credit on my account, so the bill showed -$91. So basically the first 3 months of service will end up costing me about $43. Even if it comes to $90/month for the remainder of the contract, this is such a huge savings that I don’t see how Cablevision could match it.
.jobs domains – $120/year?
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on January 3, 2010
I saw that Cablevision has www.cablevision.jobs as the link for its jobs page. Curious, I looked up how much a .jobs domain cost. GoDaddy has them for $119! That’s insane!
FiOS Ping Test
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on January 2, 2010
Ran a ping test at pingtest.net today. Overall I can’t find fault with the FiOS service so far. Port 80 and 443 are open and I have them forwarded to my Linux box so I can actually run a webserver in my basement. I’m debating moving this domain over to my own linux box, since it’s super low traffic, but I probably won’t.
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