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January 31, 2006
Moving servers
As from today, Mailbox Internet, now have none of their original technical staff at their colo centre in Parson's Green. Their new owners, 186k, have plans to close it and move all the servers up to Leeds, although there's been no official notification of this.
Because of this, I've moved my server out of a nice cold dedicated data centre and into my study at home. It has a fairly healthy upload speed, so performance won't be affected.
It has also unfortunately coincided with same major problems on my new ISP's network - mostly involving DNS it seems. I'm now running my own internal DNS to work around these issues; it also solves the problem I had with port forwarding on my router (it would redirect any HTTP requests to the public WAN IP to the internal router configuration page).
January 18, 2006
More the interweb
So, I'm now signed up with BE for their ADSL2+ service. Although it can go up to 24Mbps down and 1.5Mbps up, I'm currently getting 7Mbps down and 1Mbps up.
This isn't too shabby considering that a friend who lives another 100m further down the road is right on the verge of 2Mbps "normal" ADSL.
All in all, service is good so far, everything was working to schedule (in fact earlier than promised); so if you fancy signing up and want a month's free BE service, contact me (you can do that via the comments) and I'll send you the relevant refer-a-friend email address to add to your order.
January 11, 2006
New house
We've now moved across London, back to Canada Water in the hopes of finding peace and quiet.
Good views, two balconies and a garden say we should at least get some respite in the summer :)