Moving – this site will be unavailable during the move
FolderShare vs. iFolder 3
I recently discovered Windows Live FolderShare. (Thanks Vic!)
Installed and running in minutes – it’s for syncing files and content between machines; in fact it’s the same functionality that was introduced in iFolder 3 for peer-peer sharing.
Worth a look for home use; supports Windows XP, Vista and OS X.
Spam, Spam, Spam
Moving the mail from home to the Google hosted service really has made my daily and weekly admin easier.
The main thing that’s changed is the amount of spam and the infrastructure needed to manage it:
The last few spam coming in are for the non-switched domains – they’ll be switched over at the end of this week.
Moving – mail
I finally moved the mail service to Google Apps.
I looked long and hard; and even thought about moving the mail to a hosted environment for a few months.
Finally I tested out the google hosted email service – and it looks pretty good.
On the positives:
- fully hosted, in the cloud service
- backup, restore and availability are all looked after
- anti-virus is included
- anti-spam is fantastic
- web mail, POP and IMAP services
- 6GB ++ per user
- it’s FREE!
The only downsides are around:
- questions about privacy
- no SLA on the free service
At the end of the day this frees up two servers running multiple services; and saves me the backup and availability headaches.
- IPCop with Copfilter
- Spam Assassi
- Clam AV
It should also give family a better experience (webmail/POP to a google datacenter rather than to my server) and give me more bandwidth to play with.
WordPress 2.5
This was released at the end of last week – and it’s running on one of my blogs (this one – www.evilzenscientist.com)
Still running 2.3.x on the others – mainly for the Gallery 2 integration plugin WPG2.
WPG2 is a great plugin, ozgreg and capt_kirk have done a great job of making the join between the blogging and photo gallery worlds. Apparantly some heavy lifting is needed to integrate with WP2.5.
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