2I went to load one of my sites, and the proxy came back with DNS resolution error. The DNS was hosted on EveryDNS so I tried to browse there, and the site would not respond. Is it my own connection, or is EveryDNS offline? Did a search on Twitter, which reveals that it’s the later. [...]
32 or 64 Bit for Your VPS?
There’s an interesting discussion on SliceHost forum that I spotted a while ago — “Might I have to say goodbye to Slicehost? (64-bit vs. 32-bit)”. Someone is thinking of leaving SliceHost because all its OS templates are running 64 bit Linux. That means your sizeof(long) and sizeof(void*) are now 8 bytes instead of 4, which [...]
EveryDNS Python API and Command Shell
Back in August 2006 I wrote a review on EveryDNS. 2 and half years later nothing much has changed — same interface and same functionality, and it is still serving many of my domains. One thing I don’t like about EveryDNS is its lack of API support, i.e. you cannot programatically update your records. This [...]