The Writings of a Freelance Infrastructure Consultant
A while ago we needed to change the DNS records for our websites from A records to CNAMEs. Immediately after this we started getting dozens of calls from customers using Orange broadband who couldn’t get to our sites. Upon investigation, it looked as if the DNS change had triggered a problem caused by a bug [...]
We were starting to run out of storage for the media (images, videos, audio, etc.) for our sites, so there were two options: either spend loads on getting more rack space and hardware for storing media files; or spend vastly less putting the media onto ‘the cloud’. I investigated a cloud option in the form [...]
My first experiences of Mac OS X Server 10.5 were terrible due to it being riddled with bugs. After finishing one install, for example, the very first thing I saw was the Server Admin app trying to start up and then crashing horribly. Nevertheless, I persevered with it on the assumption that it would improve [...]