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Scheduled server relocation: Update

daniel — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 12:34:40 +0000

The date for the server relocation is fixed now. It will happen on monday, 6th of december, at 5pm (CET/MEZ). After synching all data to the new server, the whole project will be back online at the usual address. It might take up to 24h until you’ll be able to reach the content under myMapBlog.com due to the change of the DNS-entry.
[UPDATE 6:31pm] The relocation has been successfully completed. As mentioned before it might take until tomorrow for the DNS-change to take effect on all servers/routers and the pages will be accessible from all over the world.

Scheduled server relocation

daniel — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 08:44:27 +0000

As some of you might have noticed: there’ve been some problems with the availability of myMapBlog over the last week. For now everything is running smooth again, all blogs are reachable. Unfortunately we’ll have to move on new server and there’ll be some downtime during this process. The exact date will be anounced, once it’s known.
At least until we’re on the new server the visitor-counters on the blogs will be deactivated, since there’s been a problem with those. The old counter reading is stored and as soon as there’s a new solution, those will be restored.
The good news is: After all this there’ll be more capacity for myMapblog and the further development will be continued.

DNS-changes

daniel — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:23:41 +0000

Tonight (11pm CET, 14th of jan.) we will move our server. To achieve that we will have to change the the DNS-record. The actual changes performed by us, will take only a couple minutes, but it might take some time until these changes are updated to all Servers. Summing up: depending on your location myMapBlog.com might not be accessible for 10min or in the worst case up to a few hours.

- UPDATE 23:29 – The changes are completed, all functions are avaiable again.

Downtime

daniel — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:21:27 +0000

As you have probably recognized, there were some problems with this service during the last 24 hours. The database was routinely updated, this caused some problems with the connection. At the time of writing this issue is solved and all blogs are accessible again. I apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.

Flash Player 10

daniel — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:22:09 +0000

Currently we are focussing on a complete new relaese of myMapBlog, which will support Flash Player 10. It is nearly one year ago since Adobe announced this version of its famous Flash Player and most visitors of myMapBlog have already updated their systems to this version. Updating is highly recommended since the new version does not only perform faster and supports more functions, but includes some security fixes as well. Today Adobe anounced already a beta Flash Player 10.1 so I use this as a occasion to inform visitors with older versions about the possibility of an update.
If you are accessing this website from a public internet-café please inform the staff about updating the Flash Player.
The latest version of Adobe’s Flash Player can always be found directly at their website.

myMapBlog on a mobile phone

daniel — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:09:05 +0000

Recently Falko tested myMapBlog on a HTC Hero. This mobile phone runs Android, a OS from Google, and has an integrated flashPlayer, so the blogs and their maps can be browsed easily there.

Server Update

daniel — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:51:09 +0000

Due to a neccessary update on the server some services were not avaiable during this day. Now (nearly) everything is running smooth again, it is not possible to flip images that have been uploaded before the 19th of july 2009.

If you encounter any problem, please let us know.

[Update: 24th of June]Flipping of images is working again.

[feature] private blog

daniel — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:06:08 +0000

I’ve been asked from time to time if there is a possibility to allow access to ones blog only for a certain usergroup. Today a beta of “private blogs” has started. In the ’settings’ menu chosse the register ‘account’ and switch your blog to private if you like, then you set up a visitor password. This password you’ve to mail around to your readers and they’ll be able to read your blog.
Private blogs do (currently) have the following restrictions: RSS-Feeds as well as email-newsletters are not supported and the alternative HTML-version (which is used for visitors without the flash-plugin) is not avaiable.
In case you have any questions or problems with this new feature don’t hesitate to contact us.

[feature] links in the blogentry

daniel — Sat, 17 May 2008 18:21:20 +0000

Since now you are able to set links to other websites in you blog. All you need to do is writing -or copying- the address in the Blogentry, URLs are recognized automatically and will be marked as a link.

Please make sure the address starts with http:// or https://links to an emailaddress can be set like this: mailto:email@domain.com.

[feature] newsletter

daniel — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:00:05 +0000

It has been some time now since we started supplying RSS-Feeds
Now there is some new Feature that makes following a myBlog easier: mailing-lists.
That means a visitor of any myMapBlog can sign up his emailadress and will be informed for every new post in this blog. The Author of a new post can disable this feature at any time, so there won’t be an email going around for every chang of an existing story. The sending of mails is done with a queue, which is executed hourly, so don’t get impatient immediately