Updated on: 20 Oct 2023

You don’t need any database or snmp connection to monitor all of your client with bandwidthd an open source application for monitoring bandwidth usage on Apache and IIS. All you need just libcap, libpng, libgd and apache/IIS installed on your Linux/Windows system and you can monitor all your connected clients per IP and per connection […]

Updated on: 10 Nov 2023

Virtualisation alongwith cloud computing are the hottest buzzwords in the online IT world today. Both these technologies are very promising and on a long term basis it would help lower the TCO (total cost of operation) for the consumers and ensure a scalable service infrastructure where the underlying hardware becomes a virtualised commodity. At Diadem, […]

Updated on: 11 Nov 2023

For businesses considering our dedicated server options, one of the questions you’ll need to answer about your server configuration is whether to utilize a RAID disk configuration or not.  For our shared hosting customers, all of our shared server hardware utilizes a RAID disk configuration as a measure to help ensure maximum server uptime. With […]

Updated on: 25 Oct 2023

The big boys of the free email world, namely Google, Yahoo and Hotmail have zero tolerance towards users who abuse their mail accounts and use it to send UCE (unsolicited commercial email) to other email users. Here are a list of links which can be used to report such spam incidents so that their accounts […]

Updated on: 25 Oct 2023

If you want to redirect all incoming TCP traffic on port 80 to a custom port say 8089 on the local machine, then xinetd is a good option. Xinetd, the Extended Internet Daemon, is an open-source super-server  daemon which runs on many Unix-like  systems and manages Internet-based connectivity. Follow the below steps redirect to the […]

Updated on: 11 Nov 2023

This year, I am expecting a power crisis in Kolkata for the following reasons: Summer has crept in earlier this year and therefore ACs will start gobbling up energy sooner than expected. Salt Lake, which was supposed to be a VIP area is not going to get preferential status with regards to power outages and […]

Updated on: 25 Oct 2023

RBL stands for Real-time Black-hole List, this is a term for DNS based systems designed to assist in the prevention of email abuse. The first such system was created by Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS) LLC. The generic name for such services is DNSBL. The RBL usually lists server IP addresses from ISPs whose customers […]

Updated on: 25 Oct 2023

Paypal has recently stopped allowing Indian providers to receive funds from other paypal account holders and it is also voiding the withdrawal of funds by Indian establishments to their Bank A/c’s in India. This is a double whammy by Paypal as most small to medium web dev shops and freelancers in India depend on Paypal […]

Updated on: 25 Oct 2023

In this post we will discuss on creating a custom block through a module in Drupal 6.  One question can come into your mind that we can create block from the administrative menu/site building/blocks. So, what is the need to create block from module. The benefit of creating block from module is that, the module […]

Updated on: 25 Oct 2023

Its been a while since we last updated our blog as we had been busy with some extensive repair and renovation work which we undertook within our office over the past month. Its been nearly a decade since we started our operations at the current premise and though we had undertaken some routine maintenance work […]