Category: Blogs
August 29th – The south of NL (update)
August 28th – The south of NL
August 2nd – Come on in, you’re welcome!
Too Busy
Too busy with my other websites; terkeurst.net, hvaoz.org and the-bears.org to update this one.
Adam Curry is Russ Limbaugh
After listening to the latest dailysourcecode of Adam Curry [link], I have to say that he is totally loosing it. Nobody can be trusted, everybody is evil, the whole financial crisis is made up by the people who run this world, blablabla.
He is sounding more and more like Russ Limbaugh. If you have never listened to this guy, you really have to.
WordPress upgrade problems
There were some problems with the latest WordPress upgrade. Well it did not have anything to do with WordPress but with the FTP uploader I used (Filezilla). I did not upload all of the files which made that the visual editor did not work. Fixed it!
Spamhaus
This website is hosted on a VPS server from flexservers.nl. For those who do not know what a VPS is; a VPS is a Virtual Private Server. You get a part of a physical server as if it is your server. Big advantage is that you have “full” control over your server and you can host more websites for a price which is less what you pay for a managed single website package. Disadvantage is that you need to do some management yourself; check log files, clean up server, do some of the setup, etc.
One of the things I ran into was the amount of spam I received. It gradually increased from a dozen per day to some 300 to 400 per day. At a certain point my server even crashed because it received some 6.000 email in a period of five minutes.
This meant I had to take some action. I use Plesk on my server and it has some standard options like white lists, black lists, spf filtering but also a DNSBL feature. This last feature give you the possibility of checking incoming emails against a spam database. I had not looked at the feature but after checking Google I found the site http://www.spamhaus.org. I offers a free to use service for low-volume non-commercial use. You just enter zen.spamhaus.org into you Plesk Mail configuration screen and suddenly the spam flood is stopped. My spam went down from a big flood to a small drizzle, some 2 to 5 per day.
Great service!