I had an issue recently with an Azure Application Gateway. The HTTPS traffic was being routed correctly and the SSL Certification was working fine. When viewed through a browser there didn’t seem any problem with the application, a quick server…
After changing the default TLS version on a server to TLS version 1.2, I immediately experienced an error with the Windows PowerShell Invoke-WebRequest method. Invoke-WebRequest : The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send. At line:1…
With the demise of the TextDrive Lifetime hosting accounts I needed a new home for my blogs and applications. On the forums a few people had mentioned Linode as a new home for my digital stuff, their site looked like…
Last week I managed to move both of my WordPress blogs onto Linode with just a a few easily solved issues with permissions and file ownership. One hurdle I did get stuck at however was WordPress being unable to create…
The end of the road for TextDrive has been on the cards for a number of months. Tickets have gone unanswered, Dean Allen, the saviour of all things TD has been AWOL since the split from Joyent and the entire infrastructure…
Here’s a bit of fun for the New Year, migrating my professional and personal blogs over to a new Server. Back in the early 2000s a small startup called TextDrive appeared online offering lifetime hosting for $200, lifetime being as…
Here’s the scenario. In 1998 I registered a domain with the American company Register.com, I don’t know why I used this particular registrar, they probably came out on top on Hotbot or Lycos. The years went by and I’d annually fork out…
So we get broadband installed with our new Sky package and it’s advertised at a fairly respectable 20 Mbps. Start the machine up and everything connects fine, the wireless password works and the router is doing the business, wicked. Or…