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2005/9/23

where is your US website hosted?

@ 01:46 PM (37 months, 6 days ago)
I didn't care much about this question. Actually I only checked now, after reading about other webmasters concerns around webmasterworld.com. Thing is that the Rita hurricane is on its way to Houston, Texas, and quite alot of hosting companies have datacenters over there. A quick check on google news reveals that major hosting companies already prepare themselves for the coming events.

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putty authentication alternative

@ 09:07 AM (37 months, 6 days ago)
Since regular putty authentication tunneling is sometimes pretty complex, there is a simpler way to achieve automatic session login. Normally one has to generate a *.ppk key via puttygen, then upload this key file to the server, configure authentication to "read" this file, then attach this ppk key to the session, then not use any passphrase so that you get logged in automatically or load pageant all the time. More details on this way of authentication here.

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