Wow, that has to be one of the longest blog titles ever, just look at it. How to fix “the action cannot be completed. the name cannot be matched to a name in the address book” in Microsoft Exchange while setting up a mailbox in Outlook. Index that google! Anyway, here is how to fix […]
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Sprint 4G Speed at home
My 4G speed at home on my Sprint Evo, not too bad. Listened to Pandora on the ride into work today without any pauses. Speaking of Sprint, my wife’s contract ended so we went to a Sprint store to add her to my plan and buy her an Evo. They gave us $200 trade in […]
Read More →Get rid of 500 errors for WordPress in IIS
Tired of getting these errors in IIS for WordPress? This is the 500 error normally displayed when there is a website problem. But behind it is the real error, that you need to see, without logging into the web server and running it locally. Here is one of the many wordpress errors that may be […]
Read More →IIS 7 Url Rewrite with WordPress
I just switched my site over to yet another web server. This one is running the latest and greatest, IIS 7.5, Windows 2008 R2 x64. Plus I want to do some more testing and playing around with WebSitePanel (WSP). WSP used to be DotNetPanel, then they went open source and now it’s a free control […]
Read More →microsoft.ace.oledb.12.0 provider is not registered on the local machine
Sorry, I really don’t post this stuff enough and it’s probably helpful to the few people who run into these weird issues. Working for a web host, I run into weird issues all the time. We deal with a plethora of different customers using different technologies, software, applications, configurations, etc. Here’s something a customer just […]
Read More →Cloud Computing Explained
Great graphic giving some basics on cloud computing. Almost any web host now can offer cloud computing simply based on their infrastructure. However, true cloud computing is pay as you go for what you use. Meaning you only pay for the CPU cycles, disk space, and bandwidth used by visitors to your site or that […]
Read More →Bridge your wireless network with a WRT310N v2 and Airport Extreme
Update 11/6/2017: Here is a guide on the best VPN for DD-WRT routers. Worth checking out if you want to add even more great features to your open source router firmware. The best VPNs for DD-WRT routers and how to set up OpenVPN on DD-WRT https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/best-vpn-dd-wrt-router/ In my living room are two devices that require […]
Read More →More on Wincache + WordPress + IIS 7
I just found this blog post on iis.net and applied it to my WordPress site. The site does seem a lot faster but it could be the car wash effect. You know, when you get your car washed and somehow it makes it faster. Also known as the gas tank effect. http://blogs.iis.net/ruslany/archive/2010/03/05/make-wordpress-faster-on-iis-with-wincache-1-1.aspx
Read More →Windows 2008 + Railo + IIS 7
I recently had the pleasure of figuring out how to get Railo working for a customer. Unfortunately the internet doesn’t convey my extreme sarcasm in saying the word pleasure. It was not pleasant. For one, there is very limited documentation. So limited that it’s hard to determine what version you should install. Despite all this […]
Read More →PHP 5.2.13 + IIS 7 + Wincache
MikeSaysMeh dot com is now running on PHP 5.2.13 with IIS 7 and Wincache. Its pretty easy to install, just download the Non Thread Safe version of PHP 5 from here. http://windows.php.net/download/ and download Wincache from here, http://www.iis.net/expand/WinCacheForPhp. Install PHP, add wincache extension, run. Its really that simple. Just make sure you use the non […]
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