Aug 26
wingloonNews
What a surprise!!! After I logged into DynDNS today, I get a red color box tell me a “Changes to Dynamic DNS Service”. Further reading, they are limiting each FREE account to 2 Dynamic DNS hostnames and limiting the number of domains we offer for the free services. They are so generous coming out a recommendation asking me to upgrade to DynDNS Pro to protect the current hostnames from possible deletion.
Here you go. The reason behind these changes (from DynDNS): -
- Having 88 free domains to choose from was overwhelming for many of our new users. By reducing this to 18 it makes it easier for people to get started.
- By limiting the free options to the DynDNS branded domains, it helps grow the awareness of our services. Although we are happy to offer our free services, we simply ask that you help spread the word to other people who might find our paid services helpful. We have to pay those bills somehow.
- Looking at the stats of our users over the past 12 years, we see that the vast majority of people only use 1 free hostname. Our support team has seen a lot of confusion caused by the five free hostnames, so when you combine that with the normal use case, it just made sense. we are allowing the 2nd hostname for those of you who need to create a WebHop to access your hostname. If you are going to need more than 1 or 2 hostnames there’s a good chance you are using us for something important. If that’s the case, we simply ask that you pay $15/yr for the DynDNS Pro upgrade, which provides a number of other benefits.
- If you are using our services for business critical needs, you should consider our Custom DNS service.
I guess it is time to hunt for other FREE Dynamic DNS provider. I am looking into No-IP.com and Afraid.org service. Please share with me their service if you are using it. Thank you.
Aug 19
wingloonWebsites
A continuous ping to your website won’t inform you when it goes down if you are away from your computer. To know my blog is up all time, I use Uptime Robot to keep me informed when my blog is down so I can re-mediate it ASAP.
Uptime Robot is a FREE service created by Umut Muhaddisoglu, WebResourcesDepot and Daniel Rimille, SSLmatic to monitor your websites every 5 minutes and alerts you if they goes down via email, SMS and Twitter. The interface is fully Ajaxed, easy to setup and fast. You can have up to 50 websites to monitor for a single account. Also, Uptime Robot is made possible to monitor either HTTP or HTTPS web address.
Aug 16
wingloonLinux
This blog post describes how to install and configure NTLM Authorization Proxy Server (NTLMAPS) 0.9.9.0.1 in CentOS 5.5 connected to a Microsoft ISA server which enable your web browsing capability. Decide to write this simple blog post because I am experiencing road block while browsing website in a Linux box.
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Aug 13
wingloonWordPress
After 15 days of WordPress 3.0.1 released, I had made up my decision to upgrade my blog from WordPress 2.9.2 to 3.0.1 version. However, please backup all your current WordPress files and database before upgrade. This time of upgrade, I didn’t perform a manual upgrade. Instead, I use the automatic upgrade feature in WordPress. So, have you upgrade?
Jul 19
wingloonWebsites
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For July, Namecheap is offering the coupon code LIBERTY for new domain names registration. Last but not least, Namecheap also offers two coupons for hosting as below: -
- SUMMERHIT offers 10% off shared, reseller, and business web hosting.
- VPSFUN offers 10% off VPS plans.
Hurry, offer is ending soon by end of this month, July 2010.
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