As you may know, I have had problems with my host. It’s seems like they are on their way down and about to close. Well, that’s what the rumors say on the net. I have used this hosting company for 2-3 years now and have been very satisfied with them as you got “alot for a little ($$$)”.

Now I’m in the middle of moving all my domains to GratisDNS.dk as I have heard alot good about them. Then I have control of my domains in one place and can easier switch hosting, if needed. At the moment I will just host my sites here from home, which is actually pretty nice as I have 100 % control over the server.

At the moment I’m running my server on an old computer which I had anyway. In the long run I of cause would need a better solution. A computer which use little power and don’t make any noise.

I have looked at the Asus EEE Box (in black of cause) see the video below:

So as you can see this is a pretty sweet little box and the most positive, it’s cheap, low noise and use very little power.

I haven’t completely decided yet if I wanna go for a box like this, so if you have any experience in the use of a box like this, please let me know as I would very much like to hear your comments on it, both positive and negative. For instance is the powerfull enough to run Windows Server 2003 or maybe 2008?

Today when I looked at my blog, I saw a blog post telling that the site was hacked!

The entry is now removed and passwords are changed. Let's hope it doesn't happen again! And if anybody out there has a "BlogEngine.NET" blog system, keep an eye on it.

If you use version 1.3.0.0 of BlogEngine get the patch to fix the security issue from here.

Due to some issues at my host, some of my websites, including Laumania.net has been down for some days. Laumania.net seems to be up and running again now, but there is still some issues with some of my other sites.

During my down time, I were investegating the possiblities of hosting my sites from home. I have a ok connection and computer to run as a server, no problem there. My biggest problem is email hosting. I don't want to run my own email server, as I can't be sure to have a 100 % uptime here at home. This is accepable for a website, if it's down a little while from time to time. But email can't be down, as I will loose emails then. 

A solution to this could be Google Apps. I tryed it out yesterday, and it seems to work great! I used laumania.net as my first test domain, and it runs nicely!

First you have to create an account with a domain. Then you have to verify that you own the domain. After that you have to do some DNS changes for your domain, and then you are running. So all emails to my laumania.net domain now is recieved by google and put into my "semi" gmail account. 

Read more about how it's working on the link above. 

A while ago I was talking with another game developer (Cameron) and was showing him some of the prototype games I have made over the last year and a half. As I was browsing through my "Projects" folder on my desktop, I discovered some old games that I almost forgot about.

Today I desided to put them on my site here. So please go to the "My Projects" site and start downloading. 

Finally version 1.0 of WebMonitor was pushed to CodePlex.com. The application have had some major modifications in the last weeks and are now shipped as version 1.0. There are still things to optimize and improve, but overall it works well. Feel free to report issues and ideas at CodePlex.com.

Go and get the installer or binary version here