I had to reload my web server last night after having trouble with plesk, lucky I decided to check the backups first though – as none of them worked! After some investigation I discovered that when the backups were uploaded to 1and1s FTP server, because I hadn’t explicitly selected binary as the transfer mode, the [...]
How do we have such useless companies dominating the broadband/telephone market? As you may have heard, Talk Talk has recently acquired Tiscali and as they proudly state on their website, it makes them the “biggest provider of broadband to British homes” – I think numbers are the ONLY thing they care about and they have [...]
One of my websites (Shareworld.co.uk) has been the repeated victim of spam attacks in the last few days. I have been trying to trace the attacker – the first attack came from 75.101.225.120 which, after a lookup at ip-address.com I found belongs to Amazon Web Services – Elastic Compute Cloud – this is a service provided by [...]