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AWS Cost Optimisation – Part 2

Following on from my post last year about the upcoming new charges in AWS for public IPv4 addresses, I've found more optimisations some might find useful.I like to have things all "under one roof" but often the financial savings are worth having a couple of different suppliers. AWS charge users...

AWS Cost Optimisation – Part 1

Will the upcoming new AWS charges help stop our addiction to IPv4 or is Amazon "taxing fresh air", that is, charging us for something that's hard to give up? Uptake of IPv6 has been painfully slow (see https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-public-ipv4-address-charge-public-ip-insights) but for a user of EC2 for personal services at home I will...

No more SPAM, ever!

For many years now I've wanted to tackle the problem of SPAM e-mail. The source is quite simple, it comes from phishing attacks where you enter your e-mail address into a fake site, or idiotic chain e-mails that contain countless addresses. Perhaps even more sinister, addresses are harvested from hacking...