March 17th, 2008 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, linux/unix, notes, software, technology, web hosting
Late last month, the Debian GNU/Linux project announced that security patch support for the old stable release, 3.1 (codename Sarge), will end on the last day of March. Many people will be using servers, integrated and other special systems with Sarge for a long time to come, without applying any patches, and I’m afraid I’ll […]
December 3rd, 2007 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, technology, web hosting
As I was setting up my sister’s website I had one of those “How on earth did I manage to miss this?” moments: namely, the use of custom domains has been supported in free Feedburner accounts since early July this year. This is yet another example of how the Google empire is taking over the […]
July 5th, 2007 | by Thomas Nybergh | published in in English, internet, personal, technology, web hosting
This will be an overly lengthy piece of sort-of technical yadda-yadda, but I’ll provide a Short version: I switched to DreamHost from… nothing (a home server), paying together with other family members. My monthly web hosting expenses will thus be comparable to the cost of an ice cream cone. DH has very generous, increasing bandwidth […]