May 18th 2012
RT @Snetty: no apology from @Insight_UK either, their customer service is a joke, spend your money elsewhere is my recommendation

May 18th 2012
RT @Snetty: cancelled order with @Insight_UK 2 weeks after being paid in full they demand a letterhead and haven't even ordered from sup ...

May 18th 2012
RT @alanogden: going to introduce @madnexus to proper fish and chips for #fridaylunch @3dpixelnet @snetty

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

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Block Bad Bots Globally In Apache

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

There are plenty of guides around to block bots using mod_rewrite however on a shared system with many domains, if you want to block a spoofed bot which is changing IPs you can block it globally from the user-agent in the apache httpd.conf.
In this example, MajesticBot+ had their bot spoofed for the past several months [...]

www. and non-www.

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

This makes my blood boil. Why can’t server or website admins assume / expect that users use website addresses with and without the preceding www.? i.e. www.bbc.co.uk vs plain old bbc.co.uk.
I’ve come across two sites this morning alone. Pentagonglasstech.com (www works) and thetraffordcentre.co.uk (www works).
All you need to do, plebians, is alter the DNS slightly [...]