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It’s always DNS
Random thoughts

It's always DNS

I host a few websites for myself and family on DigitalOcean.  Up until recently, I've always just spun up a new droplet for each site, so they were all fully independent from each other; this was the easiest and most convenient way to get a new site up
19 Oct 2018 2 min read
New Host!
Random thoughts

New Host!

I've finally moved to a VPS on DigitalOcean, from my previous (free) shared hosting.  I did this for a couple of reasons: first, while my hosting was free for a year with my domain name, that year was almost up.  To renew my hosting for the second+ year,
29 Dec 2016 5 min read
Hacking the Hackers
Security

Hacking the Hackers

Have you ever heard of Hacking Team?  It's an Italian company specializing in "digital infiltration" products for governments, law enforcement agencies, and large corporations.  Simply put, they sell hacking tools. You might think, given their business model, that they would monitor their own security religiously.  Last
20 Apr 2016 2 min read
Random thoughts

Email server admins are underappreciated

Today I reconfigured a server I maintain for the Office of Residential Life and Housing.  It broke yesterday because of a database issue, but I've taken this as an opportunity to rebuild and improve it with an included email server.  I have it mostly up and running now,
28 Jan 2016 1 min read
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