Send Delayed Emails

Aside Nick Momrik1 Comment

Found a service this morning which allows you to use any email client you want to send delayed emails. It’s called LetterMeLater. Sign up for an account, send a message to me@lendmelater.com, and include some info in the body of the message. Your message will be sent at the date and time specified.

The New MtDewVirus

Nick Momrik5 Comments

Here it is. The new and hopefully improved mtdewvirus.com.

I started on this design over a year ago and hadn’t touched it in over a year until Friday night. I put a lot of hours into it over the weekend and a few more tonight fixing errors after updating the live site. Setting up a test environment locally is great, but it’s hard to test for everything.

As of right now, most things should be working. If something looks out of place or funky, leave a comment on this post.

I plan to write up some posts on how I did a few things around the site and to point out some things. If you’d like to know how I implemented a particular feature, ask in the comments.

What do you think of the new layout and design?

Getting Booted from DreamHost

Nick Momrik8 Comments

Just received this email from DreamHost:

I’m writing to regretfully inform you that we have decided to end our

business relationship with you.

One of the main reasons is that your site ‘mtdewvirus.com’ is pretty much

100% 24 hours a day getting hit with comment spam and consuming vast

amounts of resources on our servers. Attempts have been made to mitigate

and stop the attacks, but they are futile. At this point, we really

can’t justify expending any more resources with this issue, so we’ve

decided it is in the best interests of all parties involved that we

terminate the relationship.

Per the “Termination” section of our terms of service available at

http://www.dreamhost.com/tos.html, we are hereby giving you a 30 day

notice before your account is closed, so you can make arrangements for

hosting elsewhere and get your files and databases moved.

DreamHost Quoted

So…I need a new web host. Any suggestions? The spam isn’t getting through to my site, but it’s obviously attacking the server where I’m hosted. This is most likely going to follow me wherever I go, so I may have to re-evaluate what I want to do with some of my blogs.

Update: Yesterday DreamHost changed their mind and took back the 30 day notice. They are going to try and come up with something to block the attacks before they hit Apache.