http://www.explosive.net/ Explosive Networking is a private shell and web hosting service in Campbell, Califonia. en-us 2007-08-01T10:50:26-08:00 http://www.explosive.net/archives/000782.html After 10 years of providing hobbyist and non-profit personal colocation, Explosive.net is no longer in the business. The economics of... Services eric 2007-08-01T10:50:26-08:00 http://www.explosive.net/archives/000777.html The main explosive.net server, hexogen.explosive.net, has been upgraded to CentOS 4.4 (http://www.centos.org). We built the OS disk image offline and... Services hbm 2006-09-04T11:32:22-08:00 http://www.explosive.net/archives/000761.html Please do not be alarmed if you see a certificate message when connecting to hexogen via https. We recently renewed... eric 2006-04-11T14:57:43-08:00 http://www.explosive.net/archives/000607.html We left RH9 at the curb and upgraded hexogen to CentOS 3.4 (license-free RHEL3U4). The upgrade went smoothly... for the... eric 2005-02-04T10:10:41-08:00 http://www.explosive.net/archives/000527.html Update Sat Oct 9 21:25: Just received this email from Speakeasy: On Sunday morning, October 10th 2004, we will be... Outage eric 2004-10-09T21:27:04-08:00 http://www.explosive.net/archives/000478.html Hexogen suffered an outage today starting in the wee hours of Sunday morning. We lost one of the disks in... hbm 2004-08-28T17:25:02-08:00 http://www.explosive.net/archives/000439.html If you're reading this, it's because we're back up after several hours of T1 downtime. We went down hard at... Services eric 2004-06-17T16:32:57-08:00 http://www.explosive.net/archives/000436.html I upgraded our Postfix installation today to the latest-n-greatest, primarily so we can make use of a great new technique... Spam eric 2004-06-15T14:13:07-08:00 http://www.explosive.net/archives/000410.html This post lays out, for the record, how your email client should be configured to access your Explosive.net High Performance... Services eric 2004-05-18T23:11:51-08:00 http://www.explosive.net/archives/000403.html If you've been connecting to the web or IMAP servers with SSL, you may receive a pop-up warning that our... Services eric 2004-05-12T11:21:05-08:00 http://www.explosive.net/archives/000402.html I've updated our services and pricing page to reflect reality and to present some new services we're offering. Of particular... Services eric 2004-05-12T01:14:22-08:00 http://www.explosive.net/archives/000359.html I've blogged before about the ongoing war to combat the unholy blight of spam around here, and last week I... Spam eric 2004-03-11T15:03:58-08:00 http://www.explosive.net/archives/000288.html Some December SpamAssassin updates: Chris Santerre's comprehensive EvilRules.cf has been updated to the latest "bigevil.cf" Bayesian filtering is turned on... Spam eric 2003-12-18T08:25:24-08:00 http://www.explosive.net/archives/000277.html Our T1 went down for about 40 minutes today, between 1:45 and 2:30 PST. I phoned in a trouble ticket... Services eric 2003-12-10T15:45:31-08:00 http://www.explosive.net/archives/000272.html At about 6PM PST Sunday Dec 7, we swapped out our main ingress router for a new one. The... Tech eric 2003-12-08T13:40:15-08:00