Archive for the ‘Other’ Category
April 26th, 2011
Currently, a lot of user downtime is cause by DNS servers being unaccessible or slow to respond. Most of the ISPs in the Philippines are terrible at maintaining their DNS resolvers. Many businesses are interrupted and think their line is down, because they can’t access any websites. Usually their line is still up, it’s simply that their computers are [...]
April 24th, 2011
Globe Tattoo imposes an oppressive 800mb per day bandwidth limit. This limit is a mixture of your upload and download. For example, if you downloaded a 700mb linux ISO and uploaded 100mb of pictures to your Facebook, your account would then have reached the 800mb daily limit and be blocked until your subscription expires or [...]
April 22nd, 2011
openDNS provide a free public DNS service that is load balanced on multiple servers around the world. While your ISPs DNS servers may be the fastest for you, since they’re located physically closer, openDNS is a great backup to use incase your ISPs servers go down. The openDNS resolvers operate on IPv4 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 [...]