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OpenDNS

1 year, 4 months ago
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OpenDNS added shortcuts today. I’ve been an OpenDNS user for sometime and it’s an excellent service. I haven’t noticed any speed advantages from their caching but I’m glad that we’re safer with it blocking phishing sites, it also helps with some quick URI typos.

Setting up the shortcuts feature took 2 minutes. I just needed to setup an account and add my IP (which was already populated for me) then add a few shortcuts. Now instead of http://www.google.com/reader/view/ I can type gr or rss and the page loads. I’m actually impressed that I have this functionality without needing to install anything and without it being slow what-so-ever.

If you’re not using OpenDNS on your network or your computers your going to have to spend a few more minutes configuring your router or computer but I’d fully recommend OpenDNS even if you don’t care for shortcuts. Even the network admin has a bunch of great tools like network stats.

Thanks for the great service guys.

Server Upgrade

1 year, 5 months ago
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I upgraded my server yesterday to the VPS300 plan at Spry. My old server was being hit pretty hard and wasn’t managing to serve the pages at a decent speed, actually if you made a visit in the last few days you would have thought the server was down. I was told with the upgrade my server would be placed on a different nod that has fewer servers so I should see a big performance boost. From what I can tell it’s a lot faster and my traffic is heading back to normal rates, although mint is driving me crazy with it’s inconstant stats.

The price isn’t getting to me yet, I already get a large discount with Spry and TLA is paying for the the hosting 5 fold. But I’m thinking there’s got to be a dedicated plan out there with a similar rate or bunk up with Jared and get our own server and colo it.