OK. I have www.spazthecat.com pointed to my Blogger site. I decided I'd activate Google web pages and point pages.spazthecat.com at that. Well, when you do that, www.spazthecat.com doesn't resolve properly and you get 404 page not found errors. I have no idea why, but changing the custom URL in Blogger and then changing it back seems to have fixed it.
Another thing I've noticed is that it takes much longer for www.spazthecat.com to come up if Google pages is active on my domain or if I'm using www.spazthecat.com as the Blogger custom URL. Changing the custom URL to blog.spazthecat.com causes the page to come up much quicker.
Very odd.
Friday, March 28, 2008
Monday, March 24, 2008
Transition to Google Apps has lingering issues
Aside from the Blogger specific issues, everything seems to be OK with one exception. I don't seem to be getting any email from websites like eBay. I also subscribe to a couple of discussion groups on various websites and I'm not receiving emails from them either. Emails from individual people appear to be getting through just fine.
The only thing I can figure is that the MX record changes for my domain have not propagated through to all the name servers yet. Which is odd, because I can use Dig or various other web based tools to check the MX records for my domain, and they all return the correct ones.
Another oddity I found is that the DNS servers at my registrar don't appear to be authoritative for my domain.
I've logged a support case with my DNS registrar. We'll see what they have to say about it.
The only thing I can figure is that the MX record changes for my domain have not propagated through to all the name servers yet. Which is odd, because I can use Dig or various other web based tools to check the MX records for my domain, and they all return the correct ones.
Another oddity I found is that the DNS servers at my registrar don't appear to be authoritative for my domain.
I've logged a support case with my DNS registrar. We'll see what they have to say about it.
Friday, March 21, 2008
SpazTheCat has moved to Google
Yesterday I moved spazthecat.com to Google Apps and Blogger. I figured I'm paying my hosting provider too much money for a pretty low traffic, low use website and email service that could be hosted for free on Google. While this sounds good, it hasn't been an easy transition. Blogger has been problematic and Google Apps has some limitations they don't tell you about.
The old spazthecat.com can be accessed here for now and webmail is here. I do plan on moving it off onto it's own domain in the near future and hosting it on my own hardware just to play around. The move off of the domain hasn't gone smoothly for my Geeklog install either. The site pretty much works except non of the images load and I'm not sure exactly why.
The old spazthecat.com can be accessed here for now and webmail is here. I do plan on moving it off onto it's own domain in the near future and hosting it on my own hardware just to play around. The move off of the domain hasn't gone smoothly for my Geeklog install either. The site pretty much works except non of the images load and I'm not sure exactly why.
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