http://www.hawkhost.com/blog Informal Blog Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:07:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's another day so it's time for another rant about something that continues to bug me. The naming conventions of fields in tables of a database!  There seems to be absolutely no consistency between applications and in some cases even within the application it self.   My biggest gripe I would have ... http://www.hawkhost.com/blog/2008/07/04/database-table-field-naming-conventions/ Every few months or so we end up having to block the Twiceler bot on one of our servers due to high traffic caused by it resulting in what almost could be described as a mini dos attack.  The bot is made by Cuill which supposedly has some people from ... http://www.hawkhost.com/blog/2008/07/03/twiceler-bot-is-garbage/ July is finally upon us which means summer is in full swing around here.  Since it's also July 1st that means it is Canada day but don't worry we're not taking the day off. So all that really changes in July is when I drive anyways I see less buses ... http://www.hawkhost.com/blog/2008/07/01/july-is-upon-us/ Well I'm bored so I figured I'd throw up some random links people have sent me today. Poking along in the left lane? Prepare to pay Maybe this rule should be everywhere?  There's always someone in the left lane who insists on going below the speed limit and in some cases even ... http://www.hawkhost.com/blog/2008/06/30/random-links-of-the-day/ We have a lot of things comes down the pipe line this week which are very exciting.  The first big one is we're moving away from our own backup system onto using R1Soft CDP solution.  What this means is we'll be moving to at least daily backups and storing them ... http://www.hawkhost.com/blog/2008/06/29/r1soft-backups-subversion-trac-more/ Every year during the summer fires break out all over, there's news coverage and newspapers covering the fire(s), but this one is different. It's affecting me (and all the people who live within 100~ miles..)! It all started a few days ago when a wicked thunderstorm came during a nice ... http://www.hawkhost.com/blog/2008/06/27/smokey-the-bear-failed-me/ First of all the title was just to catch every ones attention it's not strictly digital point based hosts, but for the most part they are the most guilty of doing what I am going to talk about.  So it does in fact happen on other forums such as http://www.webhostingtalk.com/  ... http://www.hawkhost.com/blog/2008/06/25/why-digital-point-hosts-fails/ At Hawk Host we use a combination of the standard cPanel system, but using the script BMU to handle doing our backups.  The system is setup to do a certain percentage of backups per day so over the course of 7 days it makes a complete set of backups.  This ... http://www.hawkhost.com/blog/2008/06/21/inefficient-backup-system/ We've had PostgreSQL feature for over 2 months now and I estimate we have just 1 customer actually making use of it.  I'm basing this off the fact one of our newer customers made a ticket about PostgreSQL being broken on one of our newer servers and sure enough it ... http://www.hawkhost.com/blog/2008/06/21/postgresql-popularity/ Here at Hawk Host we've noticed the art of canceling a service you're paying for is a forgotten art.  With the introduction if Paypal as a common payment method for many services such as web hosting users are not seeing a reason to official cancel their service.  With web hosting ... http://www.hawkhost.com/blog/2008/06/14/cancellations-difficult/