Purple is moving to a new data centre this weekend. As part of this, its IP address is changing.

 In general, there’s nothing you need to do, unless you manage your own DNS records and point your entries at purple via an A record (IP address). In an ideal world, you should CNAME your entries to “purple.alexlomas.com” however, if you need to create an A record, please now point it at 195.167.185.170

The DNS entry for purple.alexlomas.com will be updated tonight and the server move itself will take place from about 0800 tomorrow morning, finishing by midday at the latest. It can take up to 24 hours for cached DNS entries to reflect these changes.

 This should hopefully be the last move for some time and will bring better speed and reliability.

I’ve now managed to get TLS working for both SMTP & IMAP, and after a protracted battle, SSL on Apache working.

Go me.

Having just had a three hour outage on my ADSL line this morning, it comes as good news that my server should be on the move come Monday.

Of course, this will mean an extended outage for the duration of the physical move and also whilst DNS catches up on the change of IP address.

More details on the day of the move.

Slingbox have now launched in the UK, with integrated DVB-T tuner, PAL and 16:9 goodness.

Now, as soon as someone works out how to get them to stream to more than one place at a time, I might thing about buying one. Oh, and when they cost much less than £180.

My new server is now at home and I’ve started the migration process.

So far, all the mail stuff has been ported (Exim, Dovecot, SpamAssassin, ClamAV & Mailman) without too much of an outage.

As I’ve altered the port forwarding on my external router, there should be no need to update any settings :)

I’m going to to decide whether to do the Apache / FTP migration today or leave it until tomorrow or Monday. Probably the latter.

Well, here are my gripes that had better get fixed before the final version:

– In the far top left hand corner where a double click would cause the windows to close is now the "Office button". No matter how much clicking I do, it doesn’t close the window. I get options to create new messages or save the message and stuff; even to close the window but the double click doesn’t work. Dumb, stupid and infuritating.

– Worse still is the new "ribbon" toolbar – don’t get me wrong, they look quite funky but take up a huge amount of room. You can’t customise the ribbon or close it (apparently because some idiot users mess their Office installs up too much – FFS…) but you can hide it by double clicking. Great! But when you close the window and start a new message, the ribbon’s back in all its gigantic glory. GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Fix it, fix it, fix it!

Other than that, looking quite fine so far! I like the calendar overlays, categories and a few things that are fixed in the IMAP handling. But, I aint going to use it until those bloody menus get sorted.