Darn.  One of my favorite news-social-networking-aggregator sites (that’s my meme for it) has closed its doors.  The landing page for http://rediggulo.us now reads:

“It was fun while it lasted but we’re done.

Unfortunately, the experiment that was reddiggulo.us has come to an end.

Why end it?  We’re moving on to greener pastures.

Anyways, thanks for coming and clicking an ad once in awhile.

Anyone interested in buying this domain, the code, database, etc, please contact “info” at this domain.”

Anyone game for snagging the domain and property?  I think I’ve got somewhere to host it!

I always wanted to try out Speedtest from the co-location. I finally remembered to do it!

Whew… after a few months of solid work on TLF stuff, we finally hit a big milestone–the opening of www.tlfhosting.com, which will eventually become the main jump for all things hosting related at the ‘Fix.Right now it’s pretty skeletal, but it’s a start.

A big component of this is the shared server hosting stuff which is now all handled under H-Sphere–an all encompassing control panel, distribution, and load-management system. The super cool thing is that it reduces management in a huge way allowing TLF to sell really nice shared sever hosting for super-cheap, like $4.50/mo. Go sign up!

TLF also been enlisted as an official domain registrar, as well as a reseller for Comodo–meaning TLF is now a one-stop shop. You just visit that control panel and you’re off and running.

The next phase is to get our VPS stuff finished up and migrate the rest of the internal TLF stuff to the new VMware server, freeing up the old one for customer VM’s.I can almost see the light at the end of the tunnel!

Found the first reason to throw the iPhone at the wall.

There is a bug in the email setup screen on the iPhone. If you have an outgoing SMTP server that requires authentication, the iPhone will not save your SMTP password no matter how many times you enter it in on the setup screen. It will always revert back to “Optional”.

Well, isn’t that a pisser! Can receive, but not send.

So, after fiddling with it for about 30 minutes and almost tossing it at the nearest piece of sheet rock, I found if you delete all the other SMTP settings (server, username) enter the password first then backfill the user and server name, the password will stick and the SMTP gods will smile down on you.

My friends, meet the EonStor A24F-R2224. 12 terabytes of fiber-attached RAID6 happiness sitting on my carpeting. Your 2 gigs of email are no match for it. It fears not your puny 1 gig of website files.

In fact, that blue light on the Dell is being illuminated simply by the eminating kick-ass-ness of the disk array. This geekout moment was brought to you compliments of The Linux Fix.