ISPs - Problems, Solutions, Grips

Over the years, I have worked with a number of ISP's. Though these pages might indicate otherwise, most of my experiences have been good ... even with the ISP's I eventually flame. (True flamings generally occur at melt down - when things get so bad that changing ISP's is the ONLY option.)

On the positive side, some of these pages actually explain how to solve problems, or, more often, just fill in for missing (or hard to find) help files.

Form Mail

How to use a web form to send email (and, therefore, hide the real email address from spammers)

gdform.asp & .php		This is GoDaddy's suggested (and slightly lame) method to implement form mail
CDONTS		This method works with IIS 6 on Windows XP (before Nov 2011)
CDOSYS		This method works with IIS 6 & 7 on Windows XP
CAPTCHA's		These use a graphic with distorted characters to defeat spammers
Request.ServerVariables		This ASP object can provide the URL of the page the user was on when the form link was clicked

Joomla

I will be trying this soon - no calendar or mail list manager in basic system

GoDaddy

I bought a Deluxe hosting plan, but the help says I get fewer email addresses than what was advertised (15 vs 1,000)

Installing and configuring MediaWiki
Installing and configuring WordPress

Comcast

On Wed 08-06-08, Comcast Cable blocked port 25 and broke my email program

IIS 7 Sucks

When my IPS downgraded from IIS 6 to IIS 7, several pages on this site no longer worked

Meltdowns

Leros	3 months with no spam filtering, unscheduled outages of more than 3 days. Leros - Email from Hell provides some additional information.
AlphaOne	We were booted from the server because of an external denial of service attack
Milkern	There was a server crash ... then we discovered there were no backups ... for more than one year

Author: Robert Clemenzi

ISPs - Problems, Solutions, Grips

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