Posts Tagged ‘apache’

DNS 101

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

I just thought that I’d post a quickie on DNS FQDNs (Fully qualified domain names).

Go to your browser, type in www.google.com, you get the google home page. Everythings normal there.

Now, change your url, ad a dot (so that it reads www.google.com.) . The page still loads.

This is risky, since it can lead to a duplicate content malus on google, but is perfectly normal DNS behaviour.

The actual FQDN is www.google.com. . It’s just that, to make our lives easier, the last dot is optional.

Unfortunatly, there’s no way to get rid of them (even 301s seem flaky).

That’s all, just so that the next time you see bizzars urls, you have a reason for them all ready for your boss ;)

New server – same blog

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

I’ve just finished moving my blog (and my mail) over to a new server.

For once, the new machine is less powerful than the old.

This blog is now running on an opengate with 512Mb ram and 512Mb of disk (!)

The small install size (systme + data <400Mb) is obtained by using a basic Debian install, and by taking a rm to most of the documentation and things like that.

I might even try to get it down to under 300Mb soon.