One of our hosted web sites was disabled due to their bandwidth quota. The site had exceeded the 50gb per month limit. This was notable because the site usually uses around 500mb of bandwidth each month. The site was disabled on February 17th. We tried to access the site and it came up blank. We…
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A Close Call with Cryptolocker
Cryptolocker We recently had an interesting run-in with Cryptolocker We have a number of customers that run the pre-release version of our ProfitSystem software. We also use it in-house, it’s called “dogfooding“, where a company “eats it’s own dog food.” In return for testing the software, we help with their IT services. This customers desktops are actually…
External DNS and redundant internet connections
Having redundant internet connections and a DNS fail-over service is essential for hosting our in-house web servers and other web services. If our internet connection goes down for any length of time we start to feel like Tom Hanks on his island in Castaway. Why redundant internet connections? The benefit of redundant internet connections is…
Oplocks project on GitHub
Our Visual FoxPro applications had been in wide use since the early 2000’s, and before that our Clipper based applications had been in use since the late 80’s. Visual FoxPro and Clipper are both are xBase-based prodcuts, and use an ISAM-based database system. Other products that use an ISAM type database include Btrieve and MySQL. A…
PrintRaw project on GitHub
Interfacing to UPS (and FedEx) to ship packages is fairly straightforward. The carriers each have a web api to create the shipment and generate a shipping label. For UPS, the application can generate an XML document with the shipment details and post it an api endpoint. The api returns an XML document with the shipment…