After recieving numerous spam e-mails to our various departments we decided to look into where they were coming from - and as predicted it was from our contact form(s). Being the silly littls nits that we are we didn’t protect it with any sort of captcha.
I recalled Tony mentioning a few weeks ago for me [...]

Well it looks like yet another new version of WordPress is out which means it’s time to start upgrading blogs again.  For us we’ll be making the upgrade in the next few days as we always stay on top of updates.  As for the new features of 2.6 here’s the run down
Post Revisions: Wiki-like tracking [...]

I recently made a post about us looking to a new backup solution as our method was using a lot of bandwidth, quite a bit of cpu and taking forever to be completed.
So first I’ll talk about the bandwidth usage we’re now seeing.  Here is what it looked like before for a whole month

Here’s what [...]

We launched a VPS offering recently and anyone who has signed up as gone about their own way and never needed to talk to us.  The few that did need some help never ran into me it was usually Cody our resident expert on everything related to our VPS offering.
The day finally came when I [...]

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 to say is the naming [...]

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 Google working on it as [...]

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 which is great.  I get [...]

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 at the same pace as [...]

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 for a week or 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 sunny afternoon - it started [...]