So what kind of castles have I built? I have to ask myself that question. I currently have about a dozen personal websites and at least six more sub-domain sites and customers sites and maintain them all. Several of my personal sites receive very high access. They have also attracted DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks, like in the picture. One attack recently forced my ISP to shut one castle down without my knowledge. It...
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Breaking Point
Life can be heck when you are popular, especially if you are popular with the wrong folks. The ISP (Internet Service Provider) that hosts my many websites and blogs sent me a notice yesterday that they had shut down one of my most popular websites because it was using too much CPU resources in the shared host computer in which it is located. My ISP provides unlimited storage and unlimited bandwidth, but not unlimited use...
Continue reading...WOW! I just want to break free…
…from the Borg. Starting from the early days of the then truly horrendous America On Line (AOL) who were one of the earliest and perhaps first Internet Services that attempted to totally control my Internet experience. They went as far as secretly modifying my computers’ MS browser and operating system to suit their purposes and billing me with a non cancelable monthly “service” fee. I had to cancel my credit card to stop the charges....
Continue reading...Freedom without Rules?
I earned my place on the Internet as one of the earliest pioneers. I didn’t invent it or anything so preposterous as one political idiot claimed, but I was there as a user in the early days. So I knew it when it was a free and honorable place for communication by simple text messaging and I and have watched it mature into the backbone of the socialistic marketing beast it is today. So be...
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