Having run Xandros on a spare laptop for a while, and been reasonably happy with it, but not bowled over I’ve been scouting around for something to run that I can use for a foray into the realms of PHP/MySQL for web sites. As all I’ve done to date has been of the ASP/SQL Server… Continue reading

Coming to a web server near you: the ultimate in low(ish) cost high availability web serving. The concept is to use another dedicated server from the same company, but physically located in a different country. Load up all the relevant files, install SQL Server and set up replication between the two sites at hourly intervals.… Continue reading

Having had so many things go down unexpectedly recently I’m still in backup paranoia mode: saving files regularly whilst working on them; using my external hard drive to copy all my working folders and files; using SQL server’s DTS scheduling to download stored procedures and databases that aren’t copied using replication. Of course, as long… Continue reading

I haven’t been able to bring myself to mention the fourth disaster. To a certain extent it was a planned outage. We did the backup, notified users of down time and then proceeded to rebuild the server. The server came up, SQL was installed, the SQL backup was restored … not! Did anyone ever mention… Continue reading

I have two broadband accounts at different locations, both required to have a fixed IP address. One, provided by Eclipse Internet allowed this by logging on to my account and ticking a check box. BT have so far: 1. Sent me a new broadband modem (not required). 2. Scheduled a time for the upgrade (a… Continue reading