I am currently trying to download a site backup for a client that is moving from one of our cheap competitors who basically resells some American hosts servers. God it is painful! I'm getting less than 30k / sec when I should be getting at least ten times that!!! If I had to deal with that kind of connection to this server, or any of the other ones that I deal with on a regular … [Read more...] about Why Cheap US Based Hosts Are Bad Value
Domains & DNS
Pursuing the Cybersquatters
I'll be burying myself in domain disputes over the next couple of weeks as we have decided to pursue the actions regarding several infringements of our intellectual property. As one of the domains in question is a .eu it will involve an ADR, which will be quite costly. However I have no intention of letting a cybersquatter get away with infringing our IP. We tried the … [Read more...] about Pursuing the Cybersquatters
Anonymous Mailing Lists Aren’t Good
I'm on a large number of mailing lists that cover a wide range of topics including open source software, web technologies, spam filtering, dns, networking and a range of other topics. Nearly all of the lists show who the message poster is and allow them to include their own email signature. Only very rarely does any of the list content get "out of hand". Unfortunately not all … [Read more...] about Anonymous Mailing Lists Aren’t Good
More Domain Scams *sigh*
Yet another UK company is trying to scam Irish business with charming threats of domains being registered by others.. This seems to happen every 3 to 4 months... In any case I've posted a sanitised version of one of their emails on the company blog if anyone wants to read about it. … [Read more...] about More Domain Scams *sigh*
Ripe Policy Change Proposals
Ripe is proposing a further two policy changes with regard to IPv4 allocations. One is in relation to the allocation periods, while the other is in relation to the number and way blocks of IPs are allocated … [Read more...] about Ripe Policy Change Proposals