Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous’ Category
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Posted by Ramsey Dehani
There has been a lot of talk around the rising sophistication of malware writers and hackers recently, with companies like McAfee releasing statistics (http://newsroom.mcafee.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=3607) and even Google getting attacked.
In addition to this, countries such as China and Brazil have been accused of allowing the web-hosting of ...
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
Quite often a website should serve multiple names but should rewrite (or display in the location bar) only one of them. This situation arose at Bytehouse the other day where we had multiple domain names pointing to our webserver but we wanted all of them to display www.bytehouse.co.uk regardless of ...
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Introduction
Yesterday a problem arose where a Qmail machine had a queue full of undeliverable emails that we wanted to delete.
Luckily, like most things with sys admin, it's easy-when-you-know-how and this problem was no exception.
Installation and Configuration
qmhandle is just a perl script and requires a little configuration. It can be downloaded ...
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
What is FTP?
FTP which stands for File Transfer Protocol and is most commonly a method of transferring files over the internet. Believe it or not you're most likely using FTP without realising it.
FTP is most commonly used to download files from the internet, and is the back bone of music ...
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Thursday, January 1st, 2009
It is January 1st 2009 and you finally wish to take the plunge online. You're thoughts are since we're in the middle of the worst credit crunch since the great depression that the best way to do this is to start your own e-commerce business as you've read or heard ...
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Estimating Bandwidth
Web hosting companies calculate your bandwidth usage by using one of three different methods.
Per use
capped
95% use
Each method is quite different so make sure you understand what your needs are with how they compare in your webhosting hosting plans.
So first things first, a bit of a basic grounding; data transfer ...
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Konqueror has been my web browser of choice for many years now. I still think the font rendering looks amazing, the web shortcut features are brilliant, I can customise the tab behaviour to behave exactly as I want it to and of course it's seamlessly integrated with KDE.
Things ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Basics of Webhosting
Looking around webhosting companies can sometimes be a little confusing, like all industries we tend to create our own little list of insider terms and phrases which scare people away. Well, I thought the best way to kick off our blog is by explaining what these terms ...
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