http://www.mypersonalvps.com It might only be small, but it does a LOT! Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:19:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Server Admins (me included) the world over woke up today to find that a major upgrade to the cPanel/WHM control panel had been rolled out. Within the release are a multitude of upgrades to features within cPanel along with some major optimization to increase the performance speed and reduce overheads. Sounds ... http://www.mypersonalvps.com/?p=64 I've been quiet for a couple of weeks, so I had better explain why. September 25th my dad passed away at the good age of 92. He had been ill for a few weeks and his illness had come to the point where if it had gone on much longer ... http://www.mypersonalvps.com/?p=62 Thanks to Gordon - Yet another piece of weekend humor we all need to lighten up our days ;) BARACK OBAMA : The chicken crossed the road because it was time for change !    The chicken wanted change! JOHN MC CAIN: My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation ... http://www.mypersonalvps.com/?p=58 Or, You named your domain name WHAT???!!! Thanks a bunch to Jose for these!!! All of these are legitimate companies that didn't spend quite enough time to consider how their online name might appear! These are not made up. Check them out yourself! 1. "Who Represents" is where you can ... http://www.mypersonalvps.com/?p=56 It's an odd feeling writing this and remembering exactly where I was and what I was doing on this date exactly 7 years ago today. But worse, I still cringe now when I think back to that day, and the events that have imprinted today's date so firmly upon my ... http://www.mypersonalvps.com/?p=48 The guys over at Wordpress have rolled out an urgent upgrade up to version 2.6.2 to protect against a recent vulnerability which, although difficult to execute, does pose a threat. Stefan Esser recently warned developers of the dangers of SQL Column Truncation and the weakness of mt_rand().  With his help we ... http://www.mypersonalvps.com/?p=44 Google have let the cat out of their bag (apparently a little earlier than planned) and announced the up-coming release of their own browser, called Chrome. On the official Google blog, they say: All of us at Google spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email ... http://www.mypersonalvps.com/?p=42 OK, so it's not quite the Presidential Elections currently taking the USA by storm, but over on HotBloggerCalendar they're running an election of their own to find the top 12 male and female bloggers out there, the prize being a photoshoot and glamorous (infamous?) page in one of their calendars ... http://www.mypersonalvps.com/?p=40 Back in November last year (how time flies!) I posted about a Wordpress plug-in (Wordpress Automatic Upgrades) which saves so much time and energy when updating to the latest and greatest Wordpress. Well, I updated to the new 2.6.1 today using that utility, and noticed that the VPS is beginning ... http://www.mypersonalvps.com/?p=37 I thought these villains had been quiet for too long and then, last night, I happened to notice a support ticket in our queue from a customer claiming that we had hijacked his site, or the server it was on. The ticket had already been pushed up the line to ... http://www.mypersonalvps.com/?p=36