Yahoo! DNS problems January 10, 2007

I host a few domains at Yahoo! Small Business. This offers domain registration and zone hosting, plus integration with Y! services which I don’t use. It’s relatively expensive at $9.95 per domain/year, but when I first signed up they had a promo (was it $2?). I also thought it was worth the price for high [...]

I started a Wikipedia and SEO controversy January 9, 2007

I started a Wikipedia and SEO controversy in December 2005.
I wrote an article about Matt Cutts of Google. I was amused by Philipp Lenssen’s fun interview and cited it as a reference. I posted a comment to let Matt know the article was there. This was the first-ever article I wrote from scratch.
Recently, the article [...]

Now back on RimuHosting VPS January 9, 2007

I’m on the RimuHosting MiroVPS2. I have used this Virtual Private Server provider a couple of years ago, then stopped because I didn’t need a high end service (relative to the usual shared hosting), and because I was running out of memory. Since that time, RimuHosting shifted from UserModeLinux to Xen and increased the memory [...]

Media Temple GridServer: I Give Up January 8, 2007

After suffering through Media Temple GridServer outages, I thought things were normal in the weeks after that. A few days ago, I got a WordPress error saying that it could not connect to MySQL. OK, it happens.
What scares me is when I get MySQL errors inside WordPress.

I tried connecting through the command line MySQL client. [...]

Media Temple GridServer Outage November 20, 2006

So much for their claims and the hype… My GridServer was down – connection refused on this server.
Even the https://ac.mediatemple.net “account center” control panel was down – TCP connection to port 443 timed out. Then, TCP is up but no SSL connection. Port 80 is OK. Server load or switch issue?
Could it be because my [...]