Thursday, March 31st, 2005
My service provider had a rather major outage this morning which impacted all muppethouse.com services. It sure was fun. I don’t know the details of what happened right now, but I’m sure I will find out. I do know that muppethouse.com lost power and came back up, so I assume that they had some power-related issue just like the big boys over at livejournal :)
Anyway, there were a few small issues after the server came back up, but no worries – all appears to be well now. Look at it as a positive thing, now those problems won’t happen again if the server gets randomly powered off and back on again. Let me know if there are any problems you see.
I also want to take a second to remind you all that I have a couple offsite backup servers, so your data should not be lost even if that server were to explode (it would just be terribly inconvenient and take a while to recover).
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Monday, February 14th, 2005
Mail Announcement:
Spam folders will begin getting rotated automatically. For those of you that are finding your Spam folder filling up and spilling over, Ben has been nice enough to contribute a nice script that can rotate your old Spam out of existence. I realize getting rid of old spam can be a bit of a pain, so now you should no longer have to deal with that. If you have a need to keep more than 1000 spam messages at a time, or if you think this is the worst idea ever, please let me know.
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Friday, January 28th, 2005
Continuing on the trend of squeezing the most bang-for-the-buck out of muppethouse.com I have a small handful of half-baked solutions on the verge of existence.
Most muppethouse users have some sort of high-speed internet connection. Usually these services provide you with a dynamic, yet rarely changing IP address. Running servers on this dynamic connection would require at least a static hostname to be useful. DynDNS and No-IP have been the solution for many, but if you are like me you have found these services rather unreliable. For those of you who are connecting to your muppethouse mail through IMAP, providing dynamic DNS based on your IMAP access will be trivial. This will be more reliable than the DynDNS.org client built into my router – you don’t have to sign up for anything and it will be secure. I’ll probably just change muppethouse.net to be the dynamic zone, then all you’d have to do is set up port forwarding on your router at home and then you can connect to a web server at your house. For example, Wesley opens Thunderbird at his house, then I access http://wesley.muppethouse.net:8080 with my web browser. Fun.
Ok, that one lacked a lot of excitement, but this one is a little better. For those of you that aren’t HTML and CSS junkies, I now have a way for you to upload your pictures to muppethouse.com for viewing by the unwashed masses – it’s called Gallery. Slide shows, random pictures, and an easy interface await your visit. I still need to do a lot of work on this one, so be kind.
I’ve saved what is, in my opinion, the best for last. Asterisk, the Linux PBX and constant source of Ryan-raving, will soon be a reality on muppethouse.com. This means free worldwide long distance for those of you that want it. You’ll be able to get a muppethouse extension; this allow you to dial 10 to reach Ryan, 11 to reach (fill in user here). Be a part of the muppethouse IVR solution, connect to FWD and IAXtel, have your voicemail sent as an attachment to an email… Asterisk may even be able to do your laundry if I get the right plug-in. I find this rather exciting, but perhaps I’m the only one… ok, I’m outa here.
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