Site News - Part 2

Skribit , content suggestion for blogs

8 May, 2008 | Posted by Danesh | in Internet, Site News, Surveys

Hi, writer’s block is something very common amongst busy bloggers nowadays. Most often this is the case with part time bloggers who have to juggle between their full time jobs and their love for blogging . I’ve been stuck with work lately and it’s draining all my creative juices. Ideas don’t seem to flow in easily anymore.

I need your help, there’s a new tool in town. Skribit, I’ve added the widget. Skribit’s basically a Web 2.0 suggestion engine for blogs. Readers get to submit ideas for posts they would want to read and I the blog owner get’s to overcome my writer’s block syndrome.

Give it a spin. Remember to do drop me an idea or 2 on topics you would like me to post about.

Moving shared hosting account to new server

7 May, 2008 | Posted by Danesh | in Internet, Site News

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Shinjiru will be moving my shared hosting account to a new server tomorrow. The move is scheduled for 9pm (GMT +8) 8th May 2008.

Since my DNS records will also need to be updated, The Danesh Project will be down till the updated DNS entries propagate to all DNS servers on the net. This will take up to 72 hours.

My Flickr now Pro

12 Mar, 2008 | Posted by Danesh | in Internet, Site News

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I finally decided to go ahead and upgrade my Flickr account from basic(free) to pro.

Cost me USD24.95 but was worth every penny. Unlimited space/sets/bandwidth/etc… and now since Picnik has also gone free it just made sense to dump my other image hosting sites and consolidate everything into Flickr moving forward.

If you need image hosting they are many other there to choose from. Take them for a spin and look at your requirements. Most times the basic/free services will be more then enough.

Flickr | Picasa Web | ImageShack | PhotoBucket

Scheduled Maintenance

23 Dec, 2007 | Posted by Danesh | in Site News

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There was scheduled maintenance work carried out on the servers hosting The Danesh Project these past 2 days. The servers were getting new IPs and better infrastructure.

The outage was planned for the 22nd but somehow the hosting guys got the notification mails mixed up which explains why you did not see a post from me regarding the outage beforehand. The notification mail’s subject line read 22nd but the mail body stated 23rd. My mind was set on the 23rd. See below.

Subject: Shared Server ***.***.***.*** IP Migration on 22/12/2007 at 8AM (GMT+8)

Dear Customer,
Please take note that we will be performing IP migration on 23/12/2007 at 8AM (GMT+8). This means that we will switch IPs for the server. After the steps taken, there will be 5 to 10 hours of downtime period and propagation.
If you encounter any problems after the IP migration, please reply to us in this email.
Alternatively, you may submit a ticket to us at https://247livesupport.biz/.

Thank you.
247 Ticket Support Department
- http://247livesupport.biz -

Well, I guess it was a genuine mistake that I would have made myself under pressure but what got to me was the 30hours outage that was initialy suppsed to only be 5-10hours. Apparently the DNS servers were propagating slower then expected.

Good thing is the site’s back up with improved performance now and I have my smile back.