May 14th 2012
all servers are now upgraded to 1Gbit connections.

May 9th 2012
So your website has been hacked? #salvagemysite http://t.co/mOjhgegC

April 25th 2012
the cobalt platform is back up and running now.

April 25th 2012
we?re aware of an issue with cobalt. We?re investigating now.

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El Gordo Spanish Sweepstake Lottery Scam

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

One can imagine our sheer delight this morning when my wife received a letter (to her maiden name), from Spain (Malaga Postmark) informing her she had won 815,810.00 Euro in a Spanish lottery. Fortunately my wife and I are not complete morons and saw this for the scam it was.
Here is the letter.
For those not [...]

Can you recommend me an eCommerce script? Actually No.

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

It’s a safe assumption that amongst the vast numbers of websites we host, a pretty decent portion are running some sort of store or catalogue system. As such, we get daily tickets from customers asking which ecommerce script we recommend. I hate these tickets, and I hate them with a passion. Oh, [...]

BT/Yahoo You Have This slightly better!

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

It looks like after approximately 3 weeks BT/Yahoo have actually worked out what greylisting is meant to be and have applied this to their servers.
Dec 20 06:58:18 cobalt qmail: 1198133898.559094 starting delivery 1113: msg 7375264 to remote ahiddenemail@btinternet.com
Dec 20 06:58:19 cobalt qmail: 1198133899.434814 delivery 1113: deferral: Sorry,_I_wasn’t_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/ (this message varies from the typical deferred to [...]