by Dean | May 25, 2014 | Crazy Idea, Error, General IT, IT, Misc, MySQL, PHP, Programming, Webtech
As we saw in part 1, I was experiencing timeouts on scripts that sent a large number of legitimate messages out from php mailer. This appeared to be related to the web hosting company throttling the email rate. To still be able to send these messages out a setup was...
by Dean | May 22, 2014 | Common Sense, Crazy Idea, Error, General IT, IT, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Tutorial, Webtech
For the web applications I build a lot of them want to sent out an email to their users for many different reasons. (All these reasons are legitimate, for example sending our a link to allow the users to login, reminders about upcoming classes etc) This can generate a...
by Dean | Apr 16, 2014 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Misc, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Tutorial, Virtualisation, Webtech
Now that I have my load balances etc all installed and running (aka proxy), and the box for general websites is running smoothly, it is time to setup a LAMP server that I can customize for the My Book It software. What I want to be able to do is from a website...
by Dean | Apr 7, 2014 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Misc, MySQL, PHP, Webtech
Now that I have all of the access infrastructure in place (The test machine, remote access and the incoming proxy) I can get started on setting up the servers do perform other items. One that I was very keen about was moving some of my websites onto this equipment to...
by Dean | Apr 3, 2014 | Crazy Idea, General IT, IT, Misc, SAAS (Software as a Service), Security, Webtech
One of the big things I wanted to be able to do was to host my own websites etc from my test gear. This will allow me to run different configurations and be able to optimize some websites in terms of automatic setup etc. There was only one problem, I am on a home ADSL...
by Dean | Feb 1, 2014 | General IT, IT, MySQL, PHP, Programming, SAAS (Software as a Service), Webtech
After some work I have changed the way I am going to do permissions. For more information check this post. So I am working on a Software as a service application (SAAS) and one of the major feature requests have been to be able to grant specific permissions into the...
