A couple of things came out of my attempt to upgrade my hugo website which is hosted on aws at davelevy.cc. Here are my notes. Continue reading “Web Hosting on AWS (S3)”
Web Hosting on AWS (S3)
Category: Cloud
A persistent world
Can I make and use an NWN virtual world a.k.a. persitant world as a conference feature on one of the cloud providers? It’d be fun. I probably should check client licencing to see if it’s worth it because the client software isn’t small; maybe I could RDP onto it. Anywhere, here are my notes. Continue reading “A persistent world”
Ubuntu on AWS
While writing my piece on DAAS, two years ago, where I came to the conclusion that Azure was a better host, I also looked at Ubuntu on Amazon. Here are my notes which consist mainly of videos. Continue reading “Ubuntu on AWS”
Web Monitoring with Uptime Robot
I have just discovered uptime robot, it monitors the availability and responsiveness of my web sites. It’s simple and free and I am quite excited. Continue reading “Web Monitoring with Uptime Robot”
Forms with Google
The time has come! I found this, and am working through it as an example. Here are my notes. Continue reading “Forms with Google”
WordPress in the Cloud
WordPress is famously available at wordpress.com as Software-as-a-Service. What should one do if one comes to the conclusion that this isn’t what you need? The two obvious solutions are one of the cloud providers and I should say I personally use one&one for various reasons. Continue reading “WordPress in the Cloud”
Route 53 (on AWS)
With the advent of lightsail, I am re-evaluating AWS and need to look at DNS. The Amazon service is called Route 53. I assume it would replace ddclient in my previous solutions design. Here are my notes. Continue reading “Route 53 (on AWS)”
Linkedin have been changing their look and feel over the last couple of weeks, possibly since the Microsoft purchase. I don’t find all these things good, as ever, here are my notes. Continue reading “Linkedin”
Google App Engine
How easy it is it to write and deploy to Google App Engine? Continue reading “Google App Engine”
git & github
I finally got a git account, my site is here. Most people, more recently seem to be there and the download interface is now much easier than sourceforge. This was stated in 2011 and I have returned to using git at several times over the years. I tidied up the page in Feb 2019, transferring some out of date text to comments. Continue reading “git & github”
Auto-translating a web page
This has all gone away 😣😢 An article on my experiments with translating using auto-translator pages. Continue reading “Auto-translating a web page”
Google’s Market Share
I got distracted during a debate on Google and their regulatory need to delete out-dated and irrelevant entries in their search index. How big is google in Europe? Continue reading “Google’s Market Share”
Managing RFEs & Wish Lists
It’s been a while since I looked at get satisfaction and user voice. Both are now focused at selling to the supplier and it would seem that one can no longer take a single whinger view. This page was deprecated in Nov 2020. Continue reading “Managing RFEs & Wish Lists”
File Transfer & Windows 8.1
I want and need a better, faster interface for ftp and my blog server. Obvs needs to be encrypted. It seems that Windows 8.1 does not offer sftp natively but recommends WEBDAV. On my various clients I have multiple operating systems, but mainly Windows.
I had a quick poke around to see how to do this. Firstly I have an RTU for WISE-FTP through 1&1 which has great windows desktop integration but I usually use filezilla. (1and1 have moved away from WISE-FTP)
MS offer a One Drive cloud service as do Dropbox, but I want to use my 1and1 file system. (Perhaps the answer is wise ftp since that’s what they offer). Have Microsoft left this gap to enable third party products to fill it as part of non monopolistic behaviour, but surely doing the desktop integration requires the licensing of engineering rights and documentation.
Anyway Google doesn’t seem much help. Odd
I have for the moment decided to use filezilla with the –site-manager command line item. NB the — is what is used on windows as well as shell based command lines. I can find ways to go straight to my site but these require placing the password inside the shortcut.
ooOOOOoo
I have made this icon –
This is a .png version, I used convertico to make a .ico
.uk names and nominet
Nominet UK is the top level registrar of internet domain names in the UK. This is its home page. Here’s its wikipedia page. It also has a whois query page.
There is an alternative at easywhois. and at who.is.
Outlaw explain their view of the legal position in the case of name disputes. Nominet explain their dispute procedure here.