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More Mail Stuff |
4/13/2024
So I subscribed to SMTP2GO doing their buy ten months and get two free and added it as a round robin relay, along with my MailChannels settings in SmarterMail, and after a few days of good delivery, cut over 100% to SMTP2GO. It has just worked! The dashbo[.....]
Dot Net Core 8 |
4/3/2024
In the past few months at my day job I have spent a lot of time updating code to the latest LTS version of .Net, so I decided the .Net 6 incarnation of CarrotCakeCMS should get a similar treatment. Look for the repos [ github | sourceforge ] being updated[.....]
SMTP backbones |
3/24/2024
I've had something of a bad taste in my mouth regarding MailChannels and the 18 hour outage I had due to massive miscommunication and lack of communications channels with them. Recently, they updated their published pricing, posting a minimum $500/month ch[.....]
now stranded hosting |
9/21/2023
Update 9/22: MailChannels Support finally got back in touch about noon and realized what had happened, restored services, and offered their sincere apologies. We had a constructive exchange concerning some improvements that they may wish to consider in the[.....]
Hosting (again) |
8/30/2023
So I've pulled the trigger and everything is live on GoDaddy. The webhost is working well, nice and responsive, I did a pilot site for about a month and had good uptime with that. GoDaddy has one very convenient feature: the recovery console. Every so ofte[.....]
Hosting Fun - the drama continues |
8/22/2023
Recap: August 10, I get an email saying the legacy hosting platform was ending at the end of September. I replied immediately per the request. I got a preliminary "we can make the ports work" reply about my concerns about mail on AWS - but no actual quote.[.....]
A word on server config |
8/21/2023
First of all, I am a developer not a security expert. I do have some experience and expertise in setting up a windows server that does what I need it to do. I figured I could set out some of what I am up to whilst I am knee deep in migrations. Take the inf[.....]
More Hosting Fun |
8/14/2023
So last Thursday morning the current hosting company sent an email saying they were shutting down all their own servers Sept 29, and would be offering AWS hosting going forward, thus it turned out my concerns were justified. My GoDaddy experience has been[.....]
Hosting Adventure |
8/9/2023
Just an update, I've had to pause the .Net Core dev for the moment while I deal with changing hosting. I've been with my current company for about 15 years, and until the last year or so, they've been great. However, when I wanted to update to a newer wind[.....]
Dot Net Core 6 - Progress |
7/5/2023
So far, I'm a month in on progress . I've got a couple of widgets as well as basic CMS functionality working. It's still very much a work in progress, consider the code pre-beta. Even though I've been using .Net Core for a few years (.Net Core 3.1), it's b[.....]