Apple Mail can be a pain at the best of times, but it can become a real problem when it starts kicking up a fuss about unverified hosts, self-signed certificates and a plethora of other SSL related problems.
Photo credit: Svadilfari. Licensed under Creative Commons.Using Google’s Free Keyword Tool
No Comments.As the saying goes “information is power”, but that power is useless if you don’t know what to do with it. Such is the case with the Google keyword tool, that provides you with a decent way to help optimise and target traffic from the search engine at your site. Is it the answer we [...]
Reaching Your Audience via Twitter
No Comments.A while ago I wrote an article giving advice to writers and authors about marketing themselves online. As part of that article I mentioned in a couple of paragraphs about reaching out to you audience. In this post I am going to expand a little more on the topic and talk about tapping into the [...]
FTP Access Problems in CPanel
No Comments.Just a quick note on FTP access in CPanel and post server transfer problems. If you have moved over from a BSD system, or other to say, Red Hat Linux, RHEL or Centos, then you may find that account holders will have problems logging in via FTP. This won’t affect the main account FTP, but [...]
Fixing Perl Downgrade Issues in CPanel/WHM
No Comments.Woke up this morning to find an inbox full of error emails, a queue full of emails pending and a server with a very well broken system install that was stopping CPanel & WHM from working properly. Errors that appeared when trying to load pages in WHM included: /bin/sh: line 1: 8621 Segmentation fault /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/bin/dnsqueue [...]
Problems Moving SSL-based Sites via WHM
No Comments.I have recently been upgrading one of my web servers from a 2ghz dual core to a 3ghz quad core and had the pleasure of doing so via WHM and CPanel, which, as always, minimized the hassle. Despite this though, I did of course encounter some issues. The real problems revolved around the transition of [...]
Maintaining and Operating Large Email Mailing Lists
No Comments.Having recently been asked to do a mail out for the best part of 11,000 emails, I thought that I would take a moment to do a write up and explain what I think are some of the important points and considerations in maintaining and operating large emailing lists. These are of course, legitimate, opt-in [...]
Oh for the Irony of SPAM Comments
No Comments.I woke up this morning to an email from the comments moderator on Tech Talk Point. On closer inspection I had to laugh. As expect it was spam, no surprise there, but the comment itself was: “Some things never seem to change.” And how right they were. God forbid a day go by without the [...]
