Digital Consumption - Tagged: Control freak

Running your own DNS server

nospam@example.com (Charles Darke) — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:50:11 +0000

After the recent 123-reg debacle, I did something that I probably should have done a while ago: I set up my own Authoratative name server. So the domain name 'digitalconsumption.com' is now being served by a virtual server on the same physical hardware as my webserver. [Continued: Running your own DNS server]

123-Reg Domain server problems

nospam@example.com (Charles Darke) — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:17:12 +0000

123-Reg, a popular UK registrar, had huge server problems this weekend which took down thousands of UK based websites (including this one). Customers are livid at the slow response and poor communication. [Continued: 123 Reg DNS Domain server problems]

Home-grown Blogging Software

nospam@example.com (Charles Darke) — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 12:29:46 +0000

If you wanted to start a blog, you would normally sign up for one of the many free blog hosts that are available. Did I do that? Oh no. I had to go and write from scratch my own retarded software which probably has less than a tenth of the features of other blogging packages… [Continued: Homegrown Blogging Software]