Last year I got a curious e-mail buried in the pile of auto-responses that clogged my inbox. Someone using a forged @limpag.com address not only sent spam to scores of poor souls all over the world, he or she also spammed Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Charles Krauthammer. That spurred me into action. I use my limpag.com… Continue reading Spamming Charles Krauthammer
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Server monitoring site adds weekly e-mail reports
Mon.itor.us, a free service that monitors the availability of your web server, now sends weekly PDF reports on the uptime of your websites. The report provides a snapshot of the availability of your site within the week. The weekly PDF report seemed a recent addition to its already formidable lineup of services. This is still… Continue reading Server monitoring site adds weekly e-mail reports
Media Temple falters on 100% uptime promise
Media Temple, in the first days after launching its widely-hyped GridServer hosting, seemed to deliver on its grandiose 100% uptime promise. The figures I was getting in early monitoring of Media Temple uptime, and a host of other web hosting services, was tempting me to sign up with them for a project that was still… Continue reading Media Temple falters on 100% uptime promise
Media Temple delivers on 100% uptime promise
Media Temple’s promise of 100% uptime with their Grid-Server hosting may sound too good to be true. I initially thought that it’s chief executive officer’s statement that they are actually considering paying customers, on top of granting them rebates, whenever there is a downtime as coming close to a boast. I know better now. The… Continue reading Media Temple delivers on 100% uptime promise