Archive for month: February, 2009

Backup MX via VPS – Works well!

28 February, 2009 (13:57) | Linux | By: chuck

A little over a week ago I posted on how I was trying out a VPS as a backup MX server.  So far things have been working out great, I’m rather impressed with the service I’ve been getting so far; its fast, expandable, and best of all, affordable.
The provider I decided to go with for this [...]

Stopping syslog from creating –MARK– messages

23 February, 2009 (12:13) | Linux | By: chuck

Ever since I started running Linux systems I became significantly annoyed with these stupid –MARK– messages in my log files. I mean, there’s no point of it, it just fills up disk space that costs me money, as well as creating more I/O activity.
So, when you get mesages like this in your /var/log/messages file:
Feb 22 [...]

Backup MX via VPS – Lets give it a try

21 February, 2009 (09:32) | Linux | By: chuck

Everyone knows how much it sucks to have bounced mail from your mailserver going down. I mean, its like the worst thing that could happen. So in order to prevent this on my server, I’ve started looking around for backup mx services. Then I took a step back and realized something:
For one domain, the cheapest [...]

Anyone still use SleepScript?

16 February, 2009 (11:19) | Battle.net | By: chuck

Just wondering — does anyone still use my SleepScript plugin for JavaOp2? I’m thinking of setting up a CVS server for it aswell as a forum for all users to contribute to.
If you are still using it, comment on this blog or give me an email at javaopplugins@xtarutaru.com
If enough people show interest I may start [...]

Fanbox – No more mail!

13 February, 2009 (23:07) | Web | By: chuck

In my last post about Fanbox I wrote about how I tried the whole unsubscribe option on their site, since I noted it is supposedly a legit site. So far, so good. It’s been nearly a month, and I still haven’t received any new messages from them.
So, for future reference for anyone, unsubscribing from Fanbox DOES work. Though if [...]