James Titcumb

I followed some guide on the interwebs this evening to set up a password-less SSH connection to my server. I followed all the steps correctly, but kept getting “Server refused our key” in PuTTY.

Thankfully, after a quick Google, this guide helped me out and got it working.

The solution is that Windows sucks, and you should always generate your keys in Linux.

I’ve managed to sell the server cabinet now, but I’ve still got a few things to sell. If you might know who would like a server for their birthday… please send them this way:

• 4U Rack Mountable Server 1.7GHz (bidding starts 4th August)
  
• 4U Rack Mountable Server 2GHz (open to offers!!)
• Air Conditioner Unit Silver 9,000 BTU (bidding starts 4th August)

Please buy them, we have a wedding to fund, and they don’t come cheap!

Well, I missed the boat for updating the nameservers for asgrim.com, so until 1and1.co.uk sort out my nameservers, asgrim.com will point to a random UK2.net holding page.

So for now, my nice “memorable” home page will be:

http://s250208861.websitehome.co.uk/asgrim/

Woo… anyway, in about 5-8 days, asgrim.com should be alive again! Woop!

After several days of stress, tiredness, anger, fustration and all sorts, we’ve moved into the new house and everything is done (for the mean time anyway…).

Firstly, the servers. I took them to a friend’s house to stay there temporarily until I could get my new internet line set up. Unfortunately after a day or two of waiting for DNS updates to propogate through the world, it looked like it just wouldn’t work. I didn’t have time to fiddle around making it work, I just needed the sites up as I have a couple of important clients. I’ve had to shell out at my own cost, temporary hosting at Newnet. So far so good except for the fact I cannot get any PHP error logs, which is fustrating as the Frosthold site does not work properly at the moment. I managed to get this blog back up and running after finding that my Feedburner Stats plug-in doesn’t work on the Newnet servers, so that’s disabled for now (coding fail perhaps?). I’m still waiting for their online support service to give me some sort of response (24 hours later, and not even a “we have acknowledged your ticket”… Unfortunately due to the temporary migration to newnet, Tom’s blog and Hannah’s blog won’t be working as I stupidly set them to use the same DB prefix (wp_), and I can only afford one MySQL database. Sorry chap and chapette…

The actual house move went fairly smoothly, albeit loads of heavy lifting and Hannah and I cursing at each other when boxes were dropped on each other (and no, thats not some kind of kinky game..). The new house is absolutely gorgeous, and we’re having a few people over tonight to celebrate our engagement as well as the house warming. Now I know that the blog is working, I’ll take a few pictures to show everyone what it’s like.

Due to my house move, I’m relocating my servers to a temporary location for a couple of weeks until my new internet line is set up. Therefore all websites that run on my servers will be down for several hours during transit to the temporary location on Saturday 28th July 2008. The move will be done some time mid-afternoon, and I anticipate they will be running again late afternoon. The temporary location does have a different IP, so I will have to update the DNS records, which can take up to 24-48 hours to propogate around the world. I aim to keep disruption to a minimum, but please bear with me!

Note that once I have the internet line working in my new house, similar downtime will occur again due to transit from the temporary location to the new house. I will inform again when this is due to happen!