Category: DirTeam CTO

Today, major Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world are uniting to redefine the global Internet and permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services. We, at the Dirteam.com / ActiveDir.org Weblogs took notice of this launch event. As you might recall, we enabled IPv6 and configured the … Continue reading "World IPv6 Launch Day"

This morning, the database server hosting the DirTeam.com / ActiveDir.org weblogs was successfully upgraded from SQL Server 2000 Standard to SQL Server 2008 Standard. This upgrade was tested extensively before we put it in production.

Calendar Year 2011 is coming to an end. Some people might want to forget about the past year as soon as possible, but here at the DirTeam.com / ActiveDir.org Weblogs we’re pretty proud of the last year. Continuing our double digit growth rate in pageviews and visits, we’re now close to a million pageviews per … Continue reading "Top 5 blogposts on the DirTeam.com / ActiveDir.org Weblogs in 2011"

When you see a server that is in pain, struggles to keep moving on and has little hope of ever being up to date, as a responsible admin, you need to step in. Three weeks ago, I stepped in. We set out to boost up the morale of these boxes and end up with at least … Continue reading "A round of improvements for everyone. Cheers!"

In the last couple of years, doomscenarios have crossed our pathes. Stories about impending shortages of IP addresses and ISPs about to go bust. These stories, of course, were all related to IPv6.

After a couple of weeks of careful planning and testing, the Dirteam.com / ActiveDir.org Weblogs (dirteam.com) have moved. For the past five years, the dirteam.com website was hosted on shared servers in a datacenter in Pasadena in the US.

We’re not arrogant people. We’re busy persons, but we tend to make time when someone asks us a question, sends us feedback, posts a trackback, writes a comment or proposes to work together on some blogging, speaking or book effort. So isn’t it ironic we haven’t been responding to email messages you’ve  been sending us?