My gratitude goes to Ryan Marganti from SoulSizzle Design for taking the time to notify me about my dysfunctional comment form.
Thanks to his email I realised that apparently my blog suffered from an incompatibility between my latest active theme and the excellent spam stopper plugin. This caused all submitted comments to fail. This has now been fixed, well actually even improved a bit.
No wonder I have had no comments for nearly two months… not even spam.
Once more: Thank you Ryan!
I have used the API of hostip.info for long time to resolve IP addresses to country codes or country names. The web service has been hit by some severe downtime lately returning “500 – Internal Server Error” for any calls including both API and website page requests. As of now hostip.info has been down and unreachable for several days in a row, with no signs of coming up in the near future. Perhaps the maintainer is on holiday or something…
I manage several applications depending on this web service so I started searching for an alternative solution to lookup IP addresses. I did not find anything suitable so I decided to launch my own free IP to country lookup API instead.
This new web service can be found at ip2.cc (IP to Country Code) for everyone to use.
During a recent process of restoring a site from a Virtualmin backup archive I encountered this discouraging error message during the upload:
Restore failed : The specified source does not contain any domains, or is not a Virtualmin backup
No need to say that the archive indeed contained several domains plus it was created by Virtualmin itself in the past…
A quick search provided me with a hint that the upload and restore process may not work as desired, but instead first upload and thereafter restore the backup archive from the local server may give much better results.
So simple that I should have tried it the first.