I have used Amazon Elastic Cloud (EC2) for my dedicated hosting needs for nearly 6 months now. They’ve just released a new “bulk-buy” service that enables you to buy 1 or 3 years’ of as many instances as you want in advance and you buy it by issuing a command from terminal or the commandline/dos prompt.
One of the things you can do to speed up browsing and general internet activity is to create a local DNS cache. A DNS is a Domain Name Server and its purpose is to convert domain names to IP addresses. Every time you type in a domain name your computer has to ask a DNS [...]
You may have noticed but I’ve converted this site to a wordpress site, added a few features and removed a few too. This is mainly because I’ve decided to focus matt-helps.com entirely on techie things (computers, programming, linux, internet, and techie stuff in the news) – mainly because these are the things I have the [...]
There’s a bug in Tesco Direct’s website that makes it almost unusable to firefox 3 users. It keeps trying to download the aspx files instead of running them on the server – strange and utterly useless if you’re doing some shopping for groceries or a kettle & baby monitor as I was. Tesco themselves are [...]
Having moved house I have just been connected to broadband. The connection is a decent enough 4mbps but for some reason, especially in the evening, when I went to a website when I was surfing the browser would spend a few seconds “looking up” the domain that I wanted to go to (like www.matt-helps.com) before [...]
