Archive for May, 2008

Apache 2 + FastCgi + PHP 5 compile / build

May 20, 2008

Building the three of these is fairly easy, but a bit tricky if you’re used to how it worked in previous versions of Apache or PHP.  Please note that we install everything into prefix trees and use a tool called graft to manage the versions.  If you simply install your versions into default locations, you [...]

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Spam Statistics #2

May 5, 2008

Some of you who had read our old NSCorp blog would recall that we love periodically looking at spam statistics in order to best tweak our spam systems.
A question was proposed on a hosting forum board a few days ago of just why do spammers target secondary/tertiary mail servers, and we ofcourse suggested it was [...]

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Power outage on uk-rs-vhost*, uk-rs-cs*

May 5, 2008

As reported, on Wednesday, 30/04/08 at 21:36 AEST, the primary datacentre used by RackCorp for all UK equipment suffered a power issue resulting in power being cut to all equipment for a few minutes. The following is the accepted publication of cause by the datacentre:
The nature of the UPS failure was unique according to the [...]

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php_network_getaddresses failed

May 5, 2008

We came across a problem today which we have seen a few times before. They were attempting to install wordpress akismet and when attempting to verify their API key they would always receive the following error:
There was a problem connecting to the Akismet server
This rather trivial message in this instance, and in other instances has [...]

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RackCorp Industry Blog

May 4, 2008

Hey Everyone,
Welcome to our new RackCorp branding, and just as importantly, our new RackCorp blog!
For anybody who is new to the history of RackCorp, I might just give you a quick history as to how RackCorp came to be. RackCorp is both owned and operated by Network Synergy Corporation Pty. Ltd, an Australian company that [...]

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