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I need to lock out spammers and other bad elements so that your use of the site is as problem-free as possible. Please register sooner, rather than later.
I have long desired to have an interactive website instead of a set of flat, static web pages. To that end, I recently installed WordPress to handle the blogging. I’ve always wanted to allow my readers to respond to the articles I write with their own questions so that others can read them and learn from the answers I provide. Good questions often force me to take a second look at an article or tutorial from a different perspective, which often results in a better explanation of the topic and a better tutorial overall.
I’m also looking into podcasting and investigating other applications to provide interactive functionality such as polls and community based functions such as forums, bulletin boards, etc.
The problem is, hackers and spammers like interactive websites. They post junk links, or disguise hacker-sites as helpful or interesting links. To keep out those bad elements, I’ll have to lock them out by only permitting people who have an account.
Again, when you register, the account is free, I just have to lock the undesirable hackers and spammers out. The good news is that every response will be reviewed and approved by InetDaemon personally, guaranteeing that nobody sees any spam (well, hopefully nobody).
Thanks to all my loyal readers and keep checking back for more updates and changes to the site!
–InetDaemon
I added a new plugin to link my posts to my Tutorials automatically. For example, when I make reference to any of the tutorials in the site, such as computers, hardware, software, operating systems, Internet, routing, Internet Protocol, BGP, Telecommunications, web servers, websites, www etc. they get linked automatically without my lifting a finger. I’ve always wanted this functionality for my tutorials. But the linker plugin only works in the WordPress blog and nowhere else. <sigh> Just have to keep looking around for a solution or else port all the tutorials into WordPress as static pages. Last time I tried that, WordPress blew up. It doesn’t seem to be able to handle 700 static pages, yet.
At least you get to reap the benefit of being able to find my tutorials more easilly when I write about them.
Convergence: where everything comes together.
Routing protocols converge when all routes on the network are known by all routers. Convergence is also the term used to describe the unification of voice, video and data on a single network infrastructure. Convergence in art describes what occurs at a vanishing point where everything seems to fade off into the distance.
Many of the projects I attempt bring together all the various aspects of my life. This website is one of those projects and so is this blog.
InetDaemon.Com has moved from Gate.Com to BlueHost.com. Changing providers always entails a few glitches, but it appears that this has gone fairly seamlessly. I’m already getting hits at the new IP address.
Please bear with me while I work to resolve any issues related to transitioning to the new site.
One of the issues that you have when transferring a domain is that you have to set up new mail accounts. As soon as the new internal mail accounts are online, and mail is flowing, I’ll be able to receive, and respond, to your e-mails.
If you are reading this page, InetDaemon.Com has officially moved from Gate.com to Bluehost.com. If you have a Gate.Com or Hostsave.Com account, we highly recommend you move to another provider.
I created my account at BlueHost today, uploaded the files and made some quick configurations at BlueHost. Next, I changed my DNS where I registered my domain and voila’! InetDaemon.Com is up and running at the new hosting provider without a hitch (as far as I can tell). Now to deal with those pesky e-mail accounts everyone seems to think is so important.
Put simply, Gate.Com’s MySQL configuration won’t support one copy of WordPress being accessed by one person. Since I’m a geek, I know how to access the configuration settings for MySQL directly. Gate uses a single MySQL database instance which is only configured to allow 1500 total connections across their entire customer base. Furthermore, their configuration allows abandoned sessions to remain active for 8 hours, further reducing the availability of the database.
These restrictions prevent applications such as WordPress and eCommerce applications from functioning.
The key to a mostly seamless move of your domain from one hosting provider to another is preparation.
You must set up your future home, verify it is operational, then change where your registrar’s DNS points. Many years ago, I registered the InetDaemon.Com name, and then found a hosting provider. Back then, hosting providers didn’t do Domain Name registration, so today, moving my domain is a snap.
Today’s hosting providers won’t let you pry your own domain out of their cold, dead hands without at least some dynamite and a steam shovel. That’s why you register your domain yourself with a registrar and then find a hosting provider. That way, all you have to do is change the DNS pointer at your registrar. Moving a domain from one registrar to another is a painful experience and makes for messy transitions, so when your web hosting provider IS your registrar, it gets messy.
Because I use a registrar that is separate from my hosting provider, it took less than two hours to do the complete move.