A while ago I set on the search for a cheap domain and ssl certs reseller and settled for namecheap.com. Here I'm documenting my, overall positive, experience with them. more »

I never cared too much about my web presence and spikelab.org is the only domain I ever owned, so back then doing extensive researches to save a couple bucks didn't make much sense. Someone recommended Gandi to me and there I bought it. As for ssl certificates, CACert is what we all should use and push for, but right now we're far from a large adoption, and considering the associated fees (read bribes) required to be accepted in largely used browsers like IE it won't probably ever happen. more »

A friend of mine had to move some websites configured as vhosts on a certain ip to another hoster/ip and wanted this to happen without users noticing. The common approach is to lower the TTL a few days before switching to the new ip and maintain the old server up for an overlapping period. This is necessary because of broken dns cachers that won't honor the TTL and serve the cached ip. more »

The website blog section is now also available via rss 2.0, a link to the feed has been added to the blog's sub-menu. At the moment the index page with all the new articles is the only available option but the intention is to have a feed for each tag, as I think it's a useful feature. I can see it harder to implement subscription to combination of tags, which would be indeed quite cool.