From the EveryDns.net site:

EveryDNS suffered a large Denial of Service attack starting on Friday, December 1st. We have taken steps to mitigate the attack and service was restored within a few hours. There will be a more complete writeup posted on Monday, December 4th, 2006. This was our first major outage due to a DoS attack in quite some time. We are currently forming a plan to enhance our architecture to better deal with such a situation should it occur again. We take actions like this seriously and are working to find those responsible.

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If you have a Plesk server or virtual server, I’m sure you have though about how to backup that server. If you haven’t, please think about it now. Once your server dies on you you’ll be so sorry that you will be slamming your head against the wall.

I’ve researched and tried several options to backup my Plesk server and I’d like to share them with you, hopefully saving you some work and headaches. (more…)

You’ve heard the buzz about the seperation of style from content, but you are stuck in the world of nested tables and deprecated markup. If so, you have come to the right place! Using CSS to style your (X)HTML files, will benefit you and your visitors in many ways.

A nice and free CSS tutorial can be found at CSS Basics.com, written by Ben Partch.  Go check it out!

“Roy Peter Clark from Poynter Institute has posted up 50 tools that can help you when you do any kinds of writing. This is a extensive list of writing tools, but by no mean you need to apply all of them when you do any writing. You will become handy with these tools over time. You will begin to recognize their use in the stories you read. You will see chances to apply them when you revise your own work. Eventually, they will become part of your flow, natural and automatic”

All the 50 links to improve your writing style can be found here.

Are you using the Google Webmaster Tools yet? If you don’t, this articles show you the four key advantages of this tool. (more…)

This is the second part of a series of articles I’m writing about Web Hosting. If you have not done so already, please read Web Hosting Explained part I.

In the previous articles I introduced you to the basics of web hosting. We will now look at the different types of web hosting that are out there.
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The new and shiny Firefox 2.0 will be available for download next tuesday on GetFirefox.com.

New features include:

• Improved user interface
• Anti-phishing features
• Inline spell checking
• New bookmarks and history system

What’s still missing in my opinion is resuming a failed download. With my big ass cable connection I tend to be so lazy that I download complete ISO’s with firefox. Resuming such downloads would be sweet.
I’ve been running the release candidates for a while now and they have been very stable. The improved user interface makes it look more modern. With the imminent release of Internet Explorer 7 the gap between the two browsers has become significantly smaller. So… Let the battle begin!

Google released a tool called Website Optimizer. If website traffic heat maps like CrazyEgg, ClickDensity or Google Analytics’ own heat map interest you, this looks like the next generation of that kind of tool.

It’s certainly not for everyone. It can be especially useful if you sell products on your site. If you are new to optimizing your site for sales, google also made a flash video containing some basics and useful advice like the use of a landing page and a call to action. They also decribe that testing is very important. For example: by testing different headlines and different images you can measure what works best on your site in terms of user actions and sales.

If you want to make your site available in multiple languages, there are important aspects you need to take into account. I will start with a list of three essential aspects and then give a detailed explanation of these aspects.

1. Site structure
2. Search engine optimization
3. Quality of translations

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LoopRumors is reporting that Leopard might be launched sooner than planned to beat Windows Vista. It could be released as early as the beginning of 2007. In the meantime, Vista is nearing it’s release too.

Expected features of Leopard are:

• portable user accounts
• Front Row 2.0
• Core Animation
• iPhone integration (yes.. Apple will release it’s own mobile phone soon!)