Occasionally - very occasionally - we may have a problem on our public facing web server that's hosted in some network operation centre or other. It could be a software glitch, or it could be an internet connectivity issue. And we need to know about it quickly!
The problem is than none of us migh ....
Product: Apache Tomcat release 6.0.something
Symptom: After some fine tuning of the configuration files, a working installation was no longer working ... requests for web pages resulted in the browser hanging and waiting, in perpituity it seemed, for a response. In other words, the connection was ....
If you're fortunate enough to be looking after a web site that's so busy that a single server can't handle all of your traffic, what should you do?
One popular approach is to use a piece of specialised hardware - a load balancer - that sits in front of your network and distributed requests to a ser ....
I think that was a record early start for me this morning - up at half past three, for a departure at half past four. Even when I stopped at the service area near Worcester, it as still in "night mode" with the shop closed, the "beware wet floor" signs propped outside the loos, and a deserted car p ....
At Well House Manor, we're here to supply a service to customers. And the customer is King ... But even the King has to follow some rules
There are certain requests that we really cannot meet - the most extreme example I have personally had was a request for us to accept just twenty five pounds for ....
Phil Staiger, who talks about Tips and Techniques with Project Dogwaffle, can speak (as I recall) at least six languages. Working for an American company (Megatek) out of San Diego, his role as roving technical expert had taken him all over the world, and had him talking with people from many count ....
We love people to come and stay at Well House Manor and learn on our public courses, but we're always sad to see them go. Which might be why I have a number of pages on this site about getting to Melksham but very few about getting home after your course, and I have been tipped the wink that I shou ....
"Coming to Melksham on 25th April 2009 ... Melksham's 1st Town Crier Competition - 30 criers and escorts in a cavalcade of sound and colour"
Taking place in the Market Place - just five minutes walk from our hotel [about and bookings] - at 11 a.m. and 2.30 p.m.
Peter Dauncey, our Town Crier, and h ....
On Thursday evening, Lisa and I attended the Planning Committee Meeting of West Wiltshire District Council. Sounds boring, doesn't it? Well - it wasn't; a big decision to be made with regard to a new Asda supermarket to share a site on the edge of the town with Countrywide Farmers.
There were two ....
I walked out - just a very short distance - to Bowerhill drop off the post earlier today. A fine, crisp, frost bedecked trip; here is a selection of the pictures as these articles have got very technical of late!
The Old Spa houses, on the very edge of Melksham, still look out over fields
T ....