Well I didn’t really go anywhere, I just haven’t found the time to post lately, more to the fact of what is there to post about? Not much, quite a lot of time on MSN, lots of activity on my forum, upgraded to Abyss 2.4.9.8 (Beta 2) hopefully to stop the random crashing due to lack of RAM, haven’t used linux lately.

Don’t expect a post tomorrow, and onwards for a few days because I will be without my laptop. Oh dear, what will I possibly do? My sites *should* be up but if they go down, I won’t be available to sort them out…

Woo-hoo! Today I launched my forum! You can get to it at www.callumhaywood.com/forum/ and I hope you’ll find it useful…

I’m sorry for any current downtime you may have occured. I have now identified and fixed the problem. It goes as follows: my ISP switched me to their Mansfield / Nottingham data centre, instead of their one in Stevenage which I think has now been shut down, because my DNS address used to end in pol.co.uk, which Cable and Wireless now own and now it ends in orangehomedsl.co.uk, odd. Since then, there dynamic IPs have been incredibly dynamic, so dynamic, my IP is now chaning every day (or their DHCP server has malfunctioned). This means that if I decide to do an A record to it, I’ll have to update every single day (and 1&1 take over 2 hours for data to be live on their system, damn them!), so I CNAMEd to it instead, with my NO-IP subdomain thats automatically updated by my router, so if you experience any more downtime, its either my lines have gone down (unlikely), my ISP has gone down (less likely), my server has gone down (very likely), thus resulting in no more DNS updates that I have to do manually! Before then the only time I’d have to do a DNS update is if my router needed an update, my power went down or some other problem like the phone line came loose from the wall socket.

Yes, I know. It has been about 4 days of downtime now. Was it my fault? Nah, I don’t think so, since it worked internally (i.e. from inside of my local network). I now don’t know why its happened but it just happened. Its a shame, I know but never to worry!

Today I checked and analyzed my logs, the data goes as follows:

I was planning to put my access statistics table here, but WP displays it incorrecly

Anway, I have 131229 hits, totaling up to 1.08GB of bandwidth.

As you can see (well can’t see atm), I have some work to do with 13,248 failed requests, do bear in mind that this data is from 4/27/2007 16:01:08 – 7/10/2007 14:56:53, this is since I began running my own server. I thought I would make this post a quick one since today I already posted a rather large artice on Windows Vista and the network printer!

Ok so I take a look at some online invoices from 1&1 (those sheets what tell you WHY they’ve billed you, if you didn’t quite know), and it appears they’ve charged £126.59 for web hosting traffic with no domain pointing to it, thus its not avalible. So, unfortunatly after this dispute, I’ve came to the decision of cancelling my package and domains in that package. Yes, this does mean that I now no longer own cals-cool-stuff.co.uk and callum-mail.org.uk, the domain of my webmail project that was going quite nicely. Anyway, they never emailed me the invoices. I had to read them online. Tut tut.

Never fear though, Callum Mail is being replaced by something much much better, and its called CPHN, which is an acronym for Callum P Haywood Network (never mind what the P means, its personal, well it doesn’t stand for personal, but you get what I mean, eh?). I haven’t yet aquired a domain for this yet but I will soon, I think I might register it with Lycos, since they are very cheap for domains and very reliable (said a freind of mine), and of course I don’t need web hosting because I run my own server.