Well its time to upgrade Ubuntu to the new LTS so I can keep up on packages. Tomorrow 1/10/2015 at 8am (UTC-8) I will start the update, a extra db backup even though I have a offsite nightly, db backup takes several hours to dump....
Happy Birthday to Diasporg and Happy Holidays
Well here we go today is November 5th, its been 4 years today since I launched diasp.org. I won’t try and recap it all, its been a lot of learning for me and I truly enjoy it. I have a host for the pod that...
Summer Update
Pod is humming along on its new host. Having everything on one server is working ok, our numbers are way down on users. I have registrations open, mostly because new users = some donations and we can handle the capacity, once I see that change...
Happy New Year && Spring Cleaning Time!
Well since closing signups we have become a much quieter pod, donations are pretty quiet also, so its a chance once again to trim the pods server needs and move to a single large dedicated server. New datacentre, New host, the old one is very...
Fall pod update
Its been a rough week with getting hit with a spam flood of some sort, I was able to make some adjustments on the fly to connections and speeds, but need to spend some time to do more and get the OS’s updated on the...
podupti.me site
My VPS tanked 9am on 8/16. I am still working with my VPS host for a solution. They spun up a new VPS but it was not performing well. I hope for resolution today and will get the poduptime site back online first on the...
Pod down IP issues
My IP’s have been suspended by my host for to much email traffic or some BS, working to resolve. http://www.senderbase.org/lookup?search_string=204.12.211.42 Moved email to 3rd party smtp and waiting for them to unblock the IP’s Make sure you follow me https://www.facebook.com/Diasp.org and https://twitter.com/diasporg
restoring blog and dia.so
Found a partial blog backup and restored. Working to restore dia.so currently, I do not think I will find a db backup for in 🙁
dia.so URL and Diaspora service hub
If you are a diasp.org user you have seen dia.so URL’s and can shorten any URL with it inside Diaspora. I have offered others to use it, but no one has bitten, that’s ok! I did just launch a profile shortner on the main dia.so...
Android App for podupti.me
Well I spent sometime setting up Eclipse and the Android SDK. Then I remembered App Builder and wanted to give it a try. So I wrote this little ditty for podupti.me to promote Diaspora overall. Its just basic and I am sure some ideas will...