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With the demise of Godaddy, and the upcoming vote of SOPA in the USA things are about to go from bad to worse concerning internet freedom.

We have moved our domain names away from Godaddy, but in the long run this wont be a solution since companies are a subject to the law in their respective countries. While we have moved our domain names away to another registrar this could bite if Godaddy wants revenge and starts taking clients that left them.

And with no real solution for domain registration before the .bit project is completely done we are looking at a very dark era for the internet.

First of all we need to secure our servers and thus we are speaking out to the community to help us find a server solution for our company and all our clients. We are looking for dedicated hosting obviously as we will manage the server ourselves. Our requirements are as following:

- IPV6 support on the server
- Preferably offshore hosting (outside of the EU and USA/Canada)
- CPanel or equivalent for our clients to manage their FTP accounts etc
- Allowed to host whatever content we want without getting shut down (within reason as we wont allow obscene/hate/racial/crime).

If anyone knows a good hosting provider feel free to reply on our blog or contact us on twitter.

With the massive exodus from Godaddy in the past seven days, and with numbers as high as 200.000 domain names moved away, there is actually a good reason to move away from Godaddy from a technical perspective.

While most people are moving away from Godaddy due to their support of the SOPA bill, people should take notice of the importance of how Godaddy in the future will behave once SOPA is approved by the US government.

While SOPA gives almost unlimited powers to a company to shut down a website, the real danger lies with Godaddy themselves.

It is reasonable to assume that SOPA will give the world largest registrar the chance to block people from moving domains away from them, shut down servers, block emails, cut of DNS servers and anything related to a domain name, in the name of the SOPA legislation. This is why Godaddy in the first place helped to create the bill, they wanted to make sure it was compatible with their systems and abilities.

In a world where Banks are the judges of people’s money and accounts, and account freezing is happening more and more often, the internet domain name “Bank” will be Godaddy.

If you are having problems moving your domain names away from Godaddy, please feel free to contact us on info@thinlinedata.com and we will help with all the technical questions and even do it all for you if needs be for FREE. Do not hesitate because of laziness, Godaddy will effectively and immediately as they legally can by SOPA, shut down and prevent any domain moving away from them.

This is a company which has serious influence as it stands now, and these small public “quirks” only showed what they would be capable of, but do not assume for one second that Godaddy will play by the rules as soon as it has legal backing by the bill they helped draft.

Sending emails to all your clients is a tedious task many companies often face. While there are some great services online, they do tend to request a number of parameters are met in order to facilitate a bulk email campaign. Most companies will simply block any attempts to send bulk emails if a percentage of the receivers are non existing emails, which causes a lot of headache for companies.

The solution is quite simple and pretty much dodges any “rules” online bulk email companies are forced to comply by. By installing a small application on your computer you can send any amount of emails to your clients as often as you wish and without getting blocked.

When sending emails, it goes through the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) that logs onto your IP (Internet Protocol). By setting up a local SMTP server on your computer, you can use it to relay your emails and not using a third party relay for sending your emails, which is where the bottleneck is usually happening.

Simplified what happens when sending an email is that SMTP is used to relay the message by using the DNS (Domain Name Service) to look up the MX record (mail exchange record) for the recipient’s domain. This puts SMTP as the main bottleneck as neither DNS or MX records are concerned with the email, they just connect SMTP.

An ideal local SMTP server can be found here and works for Windows and is easy to install. All you have to do in your outgoing settings for SMTP is simply to change the relay to localhost as your localhost will act as SMTP.

Tired of using your Windows machine? Tired of dragging around with a laptop? The answer is a Web OS, and there are plenty to choose from. It is a growing trend to have data stored online, and while many jump on the cloud fever, a few people are choosing to completely have their desktop fully online. Lets look at some of the options that are available.

Astra NOS is a simple yet flexible web desktop that allows you to have your favorite icons stored online. You simply log in and have it all readily online.

eyeOS promisses a simple and easy virtualization of your desktop and files on the go. The web OS allows for synchronizing anything from calendar to emails and files.

GlideOS provides Cross Platform Compatibility for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, Android, BlackBerry, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Palm webOS, Symbian and Windows Mobile Users based on Automated Device Identification and File Transcoding.

iCube operation system is a simple yet quite versatile web OS. Try it out!

ZeroPC is yet another web OS that exists as App in the Android and iPhone market. It allows you to share, connect, search and many other things you would expect from a web OS.

Netvibes is a hosted start page solution and not so much a Web OS, but it still allows you to have your favorite url’s, news feeds and mimic a mini cloud storage.

Widgetop is a hosted desktop and while it seems to be offers a lot of solutions its nowhere near close to what you can get with Google or Yahoo. Still worth out a try though.

While most offer seamlessly Web Os with hosted desktop and file hosting, it seems that most of the applications fall short of actually offering a great and easy experience. For now a portable tablet such as the ASUS Transformer is going to give you less headache and also much more flexibility, but then you will have to carry something around with you.

We heard it all! From script kiddies going wild on servers, to Stuxnet and his son Duqu roaming loose on the internet trashing virtually anything and perplexing anti vira experts by its complexity.

Therefore we will soon release a safety package by ThinlineData which pretty much tells you anything you need to know today about protecting yourself from any danger that may arise, would that be physical access or not.

The research document available on our website in a short time, will be a step by step about anti virus protection, firewall assistance, safe surfind, safe email and even focusing on high level encryption. Stay tunes for our release!

AJAX and Ruby on Rails seems to have gotten the better of programmers these days, and more and more rely on the fact that AJAX and its latest kid on the block, PJAX, is overtaking function based programming away from Java and php. However reliable php and Java has driven the web development the past many years, the AJAX and Rails languages seems to have gotten more out of the creative mind of programmers.

AJAX as you may know is the handy JavaScript technique that allows the browser to communicate with the server without reloading the current page, to do things like validate or save form input, refresh images and heaven knows what else.

PJAX loads html from your server into the current page without a full page load. It’s ajax with real permalinks, page titles, and a working back button that fully degrades.

Ruby on Rails, as the name suggests, is two things:  Ruby is an object-oriented scripting language which has been around since the mid-1990s, and has developed a devoted following from developers who appreciate its simplicity, readability and flexibilty.

Rails is a framework written in Ruby, and it’s the nature of the framework that makes RoR so powerful.

While we are not going to go deep into this article about all the wonders of the language, we will however announce that our programmers are standing ready to code anything from Java and php to the more “modern” languages such as Ruby on Rails and AJAX/PJAX.

In the growing world of peer to peer a new system has seen the light of the day. While nobody has been able to brake the dominance of Google in the past years, it may look that a whole new approach needs to be set. As anonymous browsing, anonymous currencies and anonymous DNS are on everyone’s lips these days, peer to peer search engines seems to remove the last barrier needed for dominant companies to control everything online. The system in question is YaCy

One would assume all the new and decentralized systems have one thing in common. To take away the centralized power and potential abuse of dominant players in the internet ecosystem and bring it back to the users as it has always been the case.

In spite of political pressure to tighten the grip on the internet, especially in the USA, clever programmers have seemed to figured out a way through every obstacle that is being put in front of them. Now with a peer to peer search engine that got quite the media storm lately, even a mega company such as Google should realize people want something no large corporation is giving them online. Question only remains how a decentralized internet in all its aspects would look like. For the better or worse?

Viruses and malware programs have been on the rise in the past few years, with anti-vira corporations finding themselves on the frontline of the war that is getting our world on day by day in the IT sector. Recent news with the Stuxnet virus that was ment to target Iranian atomic facilities and now the offspring called Duqu seems to be a sophisticated new era for viruses is emerging.

No doubt anti-virus companies, firewall developers and security experts are making fortunes in protecting mom and pop against the masses of viral computer infections, but its a loosing battle. A big portion of the population, like 20%, is estimated to be infected with trojans, used in DDoS attacks.

It is definitely a new era, now that computers more or less controls all aspects of our lives, and we are frequently depending on anything we do on a computer, either hidden behind something or directly.

Today an experienced security expert is worth his value in gold for mayor corporations. Enterprise security is on the rise with companies protecting their computer systems now more valuable than protecting anything else in a company.

We will cover more in deep about malware, viruses and DDoS attacks in the future as this is a very important topic to stay ahead with. For any security related queries please contact us as we have some dedicated experts that can setup high security features on your company server cluster.

Picking the right programmer can prove to the one of the most important things your company will ever do when venturing into a project that is aimed at the internet. We will give you a few pointers on what a programmer should be saying and how well skilled they should be in their work.

While it can be difficult for the regular person to distinguish between two programmers that both speak a very weird language, with terms that you have never heard about, then keep in mind that a programmer should be able to clearly explain how things are working and why they are working as they are.

First of make sure that your programmer is skilled in a scripting language that is widely used, in case the programmer is deciding to leave your company at some point and someone has to take over his work. The safe way to deal with things is simply to find a programmer that knows the programming language called php and knows how to work with the database structure known as MySQL.

When hiring a programmer keep in mind that he should be skilled in Unix operating systems as your websites will most likely be hosted in a Unix environment  thus your programmer should be skilled in setting up a Unix based machine.

The most important is however to make sure your programmer is flexible and you should always make sure that he can meet the deadlines. If you get to sick of working with programmers another solution would be to hire our company and we will deal with all the administration in the back and all the aspects of getting servers to work with your website on it.