Guennadi M

One of the sites at FAST.hit got a huge amount of traffic last night. More, probably, that this site would do in 3 months. Having done some guessing work and checking the logs, we noticed that a lot of references to the user agent http://pandora.nla.gov.au/crawl.html. We followed the link, and, funny enough, found a “Notice to Webmasters”. This notice basically says: “In August and September 2006 the National Library of Australia is undertaking a comprehensive crawl and harvest of the Australian web domain using the services of the Internet Archive…”

They crawl your site and not just index your pages, but actually copy everything for “archiving purposes”.

Hello…???

• has anyone heard about privacy laws?
• Who is going to pay for all that traffic?
• Will the site owners be ever notified about this?
• How do they determine which site is Australian and which is not (based on IP/ DNS/ Domain)?

Here is a snapshot of that page:

Comments are welcome.

ColdFusion 7.0.2 / Flex 2 hosting is now available on all Fast Hit’s MX7 plans. ColdFusion 7.0.2 includes the ColdFusion Data Services and ColdFusion Extensions for Flex Builder 2.

Here is one of the first Flex applications hosted on the server - “My Tasting Notes Wine tracker” from www.mytastingnotes.com.au

Links:

• About Flex
• Flex Data Services 2
• Flex Whitepaper (pdf)
• Fast Hit plans supporting Flex Hosting

If you are looking for a greater flexibilty with your hosting account - we now have a solution - take a look at Fast Hit’s VPS hosting plans. A web hosting account can now be put inside a VPS (Virtual Private Server) for total security. You will also have a root or administrator access to your “server” that will allow you to configure the machine the way you want and install any program you like. ColdFusion inside VPS is not yet available, but we’re testing it. There a few customers who put each of their clients inside a separate VPS for greater flexibility.

VPS = Virtual Private Server is based on Virtuozzo which creates isolated, secure virtual environments (VEs) on a single physical server enabling better server utilization, ensuring guaranteed resources and preventing applications from conflicting. Each VE performs and executes exactly like a stand-alone server.

Each VPS can be rebooted independently and have users, IP addresses, processes, system libraries and configuration files. The system comes with an additional control panel that allows you to…

• Install any program you like
• Do full or incremental backups
• Check your bandwidth use
• Reboot your system
• Start/stop your system (including starting your system when it’s down)
• Change/retrieve your password
• Reinstall/repair your system
• Monitor resources used (bandwidth, memory, disk)
• Monitor and manipulate services
• Monitor and manipulate individual processes
• Open an SSH connection to your server
• View activity logs
• Move the system to a dedicated server without any downtime

That’s it! Give Fast Hit a call if you’d like to try it out.

I am running Windows XP x64 at home and looking for a wifi USB adapter that would have drives for this it. I searched google over and over and couldn’t find anything that supports 64-bit windows. There are some old posts suggesting that this could work, but no, I didn’t have any luck so far. It’s strange that this is the case. I’d expect the new 64-bit technology to be more widely accepted and supported by now… but then again… do you remember when 32-bit windows came out?

Welcome to my new (again!) blog. This time let’s hope the content will be more