ThePlanet Gives Entrecard Droppers A Day-Off
ThePlanet determined that no servers in the data center have been damaged. Nonetheless, they are down because power is out. According to ThePlanet as of this writing, they do not have an estimated time to repair at present. Their staff and management continue to work things out. Entrecard was down for almost 12 hours already as of this time. I assume that today is Entrecard droppers’ day-off. I hope everything will be back to normal tomorrow.
Entrecard displayed this outage information at the moment:
There was a fire at our datacenter resulting in the failure of some of our systems, our database server appears to be offline still, we’re working on it and we’re really sorry about the issues at this time. more information arriving shortly.
Quoted below is the email I’ve received from entrecard team this morning:
Greetings,
Unfortunately, there has been an electrical fire at the data center housing Entrecard’s servers. The servers have not been damaged, but the site may be down for as long as 12 hours.
Entrecard is hosted with ThePlanet, and this fire has effected over 9000 websites, as many of the world’s most popualar websites are hosted with ThePlanet. They are working around the clock to get their data center back online, and we are hoping that they get it back online fast.
Thank you for your pateince and understanding with this rare and frustrating problem. Unfortunately, there is absolutely nothing we can do but wait for The Planet to get their datacenter back online.
Please check back with Entrecard in 12 to 24 hours.
Thanks,
Entrecard Team
What Is Your IP Address?
Many times from my past articles that I mentioned about IP address without discussing briefly what it is. To advanced usage of mobile phones, knowing one’s IP address is indeed important in able to use mobile application intended for sharing files like Raccoon and Comobi.
IP stands for Internet Protocol, is a unique address that certain electronic devices use in order to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet Protocol standard. In laymans terms, it is sort of like a thumbmark of current connection, the location and other information of an IP address can be traced.
When I started blogging at wordpress.com, I stumbled on a blog that has a widget of current visitor’s flag. As a newbie that time, I was really fascinated on how that works and flattered seeing my flag on other blogs. It took me time to figure that out.
There’s also an instance that a spammer once accused me of deleting her comments which I didn’t approved for the reason of malicious, not related comments and pretending to be different persons but have the same IP address. Understanding IP address is important for this situation.
Upon digging deeply on IP address, I found out that there are many possibilities on manipulating IP address. I stumbled on a website and learned interesting things from their articles and tools. I’ve tried checking my ip with these reliable tools.
- IP Location, Map and Details – If you want to know the location of a certain IP address and some information, you may enter the IP address and find it here.
- Email Source IP Address – This tool displays the estimated location, an IP address of an email.
- IP Traceroute – This tool displays the geographical location of an IP address.
- Visual Traceroute – This tool displays the mapped graphical location of a traceroute from the server to the requested IP address.
- DNSbl Check – This tool may help you check if your IP address is listed with nearly 100 DNS based anti-spam databases.
- IP to Hostname Lookup – This tool displays the hostname of an IP address.
- Hostname to IP Lookup – This tool displays the IP address of a hostname. I’ve tried www.ebooktechie.com and it display my IP address.
- Advanced Proxy Check – This tool can help you check if information is exposed if you are using proxy server.
I've Been Plagiarized Again!
When I posted Make Raccoon Mobsite Password Protected, I checked on my technorati account if it was automatically pinged. I am aware that technorati is having their maintenance again, fans were gone again. Manual pinging is a regular habit after each article posting. Anyway, I noticed that I have an additional technorati authority.
When I checked on the link, the site had copied the whole post including my signature “glitch” at the end of the post. This was the third time I experienced copyblogging of my blog contents. But this time, I think this is sort of what other bloggers called as “auto content”… instant article from feed subscription.
Correct me if I’m wrong, I believe copying a part of the post is ok provided that the site linked back to the source site. I always do that for justification or additional information on my post, it doesn’t matter if its a dofollow or nofollow link. For me, linking back is showing respect to the intellectual property of the original writer.
I felt sad and angry at the same time, I commented to that site to delete my copied article on their site. Good thing that they’ve already deleted it. Plagiarism is a crime, I don’t want to be a victim again for the nth time. I will start using copyscape banner 
again for easy checking. Actually, I forgot to place the banner when I moved to my own domain. Lesson learned again from blogging, I hope copybloggers will soon realize that the site they’ve copied will be penalized by Google and other search engine for duplicate contents. There is such thing as karma…
Security Issue On Migrating Files?
I did mentioned from my previous entry that I have plans of changing my web host before my newly renewed account expires. That means, I will be migrating all my files, I admit I have a cold feet on doing that. I’m afraid that I might commit mistake on uploading files.
I’m aware that when it comes to web hosting security, there’s also a security issue on uploading incomplete files aside from data loss, long server downtimes and other known web host problems. I don’t want ebooktechie to opened its door to hackers. Updating a blog maybe easier than securing a self hosted blog but having enough web host information can make bloggers’ life easier.
Searching For A Better Web Host
I’ve just renewed Mobile eBook’s hosting at GoDaddy yesterday for another 3 months. Actually, I have read many negative feedbacks regarding godaddy but the thing I like about godaddy is they have affordable plans and they accept monthly payments. When I decided to moved to my own domain early this year with a few balance from paypal, I didn’t know that I also need to get a web host. That time, all I can do was ask recommendations from my co-bloggers. Comparing each of them their positive view of view made me confuse in a way which one is better.
Searching for the best web hosting service is time consuming. Relying on recommendations sometimes end up cancelling the service without going through a certain research. A certain web host might be the best for a certain blogger but not to all bloggers simply because we have individual requirements on choosing a web host. I heard of some bloggers, changing their web host from time to time and eventually stop moving when they already found the best web host for them. Migrating files is also time consuming, maybe the best way on choosing the right one is to test the service.
Why am I making this post now? Simply because I’m thinking of moving to another web host. Sad to say, I’m not happy with my current host’s customer support. Good thing that they have monthly rates which is my primary requirement for 150GB space. I’ve tried searching for the best web host place suitable for me, perhaps a comparison of web hosts. After reading some articles I found informative, I guess I made a choice where to move before my web host expires. A simple advice is to equipped yourself with enough information before moving.
