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Freenom.com goes out of business: the .ML, .TK, .GQ and .CF domains freeze

June 21, 2024

We already talked about Freenom.com here and it is not a surprise that Freenom.com is (finally) going out of business, after ICANN decided to withdraw their Registrar accreditation. Everyone knows who is responsible of this, and the curse placed on Freenom.com (finally) played out! Unfortunately in yet another blow-up rip-off (which was really Freenom.com’ signature… read more »

CloudLinux does not want to serve you

February 11, 2024

How long do you need to properly serve your customer?.. Back in July 2022 CloudLinux announced that they will support Ubuntu® OS. After 1.5 years you would think that this announcement would be well completed… so an AWS EC2 instance was started only to run into this error regarding the kmodlve module: Errors occurred during… read more »

AlibabaCloud DirectMail: how to lift the 5 domains limit

June 28, 2023

AlibabaCloud provides a DirectMail service (equivalent to Amazon SES)! SMTP or API can be used to send either batched emails (mailing-list) or triggered emails (order confirmation, ticket system, etc). It is low cost: the unit price is $0.29 USD per 1,000 messages with discounts available from 50,000 messages per month. But the cherry on the… read more »

Meta Inc. (formerly Facebook) filed a lawsuit against Freenom

March 28, 2023

On March 3rd, 2023: Meta Inc. (formerly Facebook) filed a lawsuit against Freenom for trademark infringement, facilitating cybercrimes, false designation of origin. This is due to the tsunami of phishing websites using the .TK, .ML, .GQ, .GA, and .CF ccTLDs. The lawsuit reveals a pattern to abuse Fortune 500’s trademarks by concealing WHOIS details (despite… read more »

The best hosting for Laravel

March 13, 2023

Laravel needs full control of all PHP settings and parameters. In other words: if your web hosting environment is too restrictive, and Laravel will not run and produce errors such as: or It is extremely important to have an unrestricted web hosting company for your needs. At Quantum Hosting® we thrive at serving you.

The danger of a custom 404-page

March 13, 2023

One customer running a single WordPress was using a 4x vCPUs instance on Amazon AWS®. But the CPU and load usage were so high, with no apparent reasons (the number of visitors was reasonable). However: each 404 triggered a huge CPU and bandwidth consumption! A test was conducted and the 404 was replaced by a… read more »

Amazon AWS® bad discovery: overselling

June 23, 2024

This is the CPU monitoring usage on an EC2 instance in Ireland (t3a.xlarge). Two things to notice:-the left graph has an average of 40% of white background (it does not reach the full 400% CPU height)-the left graph has a maximum of 46% CPU steal (which is the red part, and it should not be… read more »

The circus at Amazon AWS® continues!

March 13, 2023

Amazon AWS® blocks outgoing port 25 on any new EC2® instance, and requires to use Amazon SES®. So you enable Amazon SES® and this is what they reply instantly: In which world emails’ permission needs to be granted? Isn’t email a basic internet service? Is it something so spectacular at Amazon AWS®? The idiots that… read more »

The limits (and dangers) of YunoHost

March 13, 2023

YunoHost is a great applications manager! It is not only free but also very fast: in a few clicks you have installed a complete application! It is becoming an increasing competitor to Softaculous and even WHM/cPanel. If you are an application developer: you can reach new customers and new users by deploying your software through… read more »

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