More Docker Fun :)

To say I’m really enjoying playing with Docker is a bit of an understatement. DearDiary.Net is almost migrated (in development mode) to Docker. I’m still playing with getting the SSL certificates automatically generated and kept up to date using Certbot for Docker. But what really amazes me is how fabulous Docker is on Windows. At…

Playing With Docker

Given that I’ve said in the Facebook Group that it would be great if people started updating again, I figured I really ought to do the same myself. Do As I Say Not As I Do. Or something like that anyway 🙂 So, anyway. I’ve been playing with Docker. I /really/ like it. Docker is…

Another New Server

So, after migrating the enormous mess that calls itself DearDiary.net to a new host the other day it became apparent the hosting plan it was on was completely unsuitable for such a massive site. There’s over 3000 diaries registered on the new system (contrast that with around 60,000 on the legacy site though!) and they…

Server Moved…

So, after much humming and harring (that is a real word you know) – I have actually got around to finally moving the DearDiary.Net service to a proper hosting provider again. It was previously hosted on a server in my house, running over my own broadband connection. Whilst this was nice and cheap, it was…

Migration Was Broken

Someone wrote to me somewhere, but I can’t find the message now so I apologise for not having responded directly. However, the message indicated that the migration system was broken, because users were being told that their username already existed on the new system when in fact it did not. This was due to a…

Sorry to Panic!

Eliezer raised an important privacy issue in a comment on my previous entry. One which I'd never really thought of in too much depth but one that is entirely valid. Having looked into the issue of Plus account holders 'Friends Only' diaries suddenly becoming public when I run the expiry scripts for the first time…