I hooked up with an email service back in December 2014. I had added my e-commerce store to the AWS cloud and needed a way to handle the email traffic to the store. AWS has a very powerful and secure sending system I linked into using SMTP but AWS does not offer any inbound mail service. No mail boxes. I stumbled across POBOX while researching a solution. I can do just what I needed with...
Continue reading...Daniel Kautz
Cloudy but Bright
I just put a new website in the AWS (Amazon Web Service) cloud. This one is the KautzCraft site. My shared server ISP (Ixwebhosting.com) has been causing me frustration by blocking my IP address 18 plus hours while I was accessing my web site files because I was doing too much backing up of those files via FTP. I understand the issues with managing a fairly overloaded shared server with dozens of other user sites....
Continue reading...Content Management Systems
I still maintain a few static HTML web site for some commercial customers. They are simple to maintain, good for “look and read” web pages. They also run the quickest as nothing is built “on the fly” like a Content Management Systems (CMS) web site. All my personal websites are now running in CMS and are what is called “dynamic” web sites. They all require the use of a database server as well as the...
Continue reading...High Speed Cable At Last
I am using Time Warner Cable (TWC) as my Internet Service Provider (ISP). They are in the beginning stages of a network upgrade where I will soon have a 100 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload connection speed. I presently have a 20/2 Mbps “Turbo” plan. For no additional cost I will soon have the 100/10 Mbps Ultimate 100 plan. What I have just done is a no cost exchange of my leased cable modem for a newer...
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