Archive for March, 2006

Web 2.0 Awards

Friday, March 31st, 2006

SEOmoz Web 2.0 Awards - Honorable Mention
All three of our websites, Reader², MyFilmz and MyProgs, have received an honorable mention awards from SEOmoz.

DDoS attack on DNS

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Several days ago, all our websites were unaccessible from time to time, this problem is fixed now. Here’s the quote from Joker.com, company that we use to register our domains and for DNS support:

A distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) of unknown origin started Monday, 2006-03-20

Upstream providers reported traffic peaks of about 1.3 Gigabits per second on a single line. This was enough to overload our lines, causing communication problems between our border routers and the upstream providers, and thereby interrupting all services for a short period on 2006-03-20

We responded by adding more nameservers, some of them being hosted in external data centers with own DDoS protection. We reserved more bandwidth for Joker.com exlusively, and implemented automatic systems to react on certain incidents.
These measures seem to have helped, since the later attacks did not affect our systems as much as the first one. In the near future, we will do more to protect your domains and our business against such criminal activities.

We know Joker.com as a very reliable service for already 2 years of good work and recommend it highly.

Wiki

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

I’m thinking about the idea to add personal page to each book author, movie actor and director, and so on (as well as adding a separate comments to all them). The question is - how to implement it? I vote for wiki. Then I need some wiki engine, that I can easily change for my needs - perfect variant would be if it has functions for working with database (database layer) that I can redefine - to use my users info instead of internal usebase, to store data in my database. Or even better - if I can take just the wiki-part (working with separate page, storing history) and use it alone, without all other functions. Does anybody know such wiki engine? Or maybe you have something else to suggest?

[I’ve already built such mini-wiki-engine for eMule Plus forum, but I prefer to use something more powerful if possible]

Update. I’ll probably look into TiddlyWiki first - when I get to this feature at all.

DB2 remark

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

Auto-increment (as in MySQL) is called Identity in DB2 (value generation parameter). And it wasn’t too easy to find it out…