This was a day to remember. I thought PayPal (PP) had thrown a monkey wrench into my ecommerce Ramblin’ Dan’s Store. PP actually did toss the wrench, but I was able to get it out of the gears before it did too much damage. Here’s what went down. I opened a new PP account last fall when I changed my ecommerce store name from The Hobbyist Machine Store (THMS) to Ramblin’ Dan’s Store (RDS). What...
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A reference to the Internet storefront called, “The Hobbyist’s Machine Store”.
A Really Big Byte
I launched off into exploring the “cloud” as well as trying to understand a new piece of software and discover how it needed to be set up. What I really did was take a very big byte (bite) of new learning experience. I have been running a crash course on how to set up a web server in the Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud. First let me say I picked AWS from several good options...
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I have determined I will have to spend a lot more time developing the new store website to get it to where I want it to be. It’s not like I haven’t been planning this change-over carefully before the old store got caught up in DOS attacks. It has just happened a lot sooner than expected. The old website is again operational, and I have put it back on-line.. It WAS NOT damaged in any...
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The Hobbyist Machine Store was attacked last week with a Denial of Service (DOS) by one hacker at one IP address. This lead to an overload of services on the server that I share with many other websites. As you you know from previous posts this is not the first time or the first website I manage that has been attacked like this. My service provider was forced to shut down The Hobbyist Machine Store...
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