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Finally, my Posterous site is up!

Posted on August 5, 2010 by in Media

Got noticed this morning that Posterous site is down due to a denial of service (DoS) attack, then got an email from Posterous telling some instructions since I am one of Posterous’ custom domain users. Then I tried to follow the instructions –it works well! My budiputra.com is back! Thanks Posterous, good job!

We’re contacting you because you are using a custom domain for your Posterous site which means your site remains under attack and may still be inaccessible.

If your site uses a custom domain and is still down, please accept our most sincere apology. There are two options for you at this point:

1. Do nothing. At some point, the DoS attack will cease, and we will again be responding to our primary address. This could be several minutes from now, several hours, or several days. There’s no way of knowing, but your site will automatically start working properly as soon as the attack is over.

2. Change your domain to point to our new address. We have set up a new address that is not being attacked and can successfully accept traffic. If you want to point your server to this address, you may do so, and we’ll allow traffic on both addresses for the forseeable future. To change servers, follow the following instructions, substituting our old address with our new address: 209.20.70.130

Instructions

  • Log into your DNS host, which is usually your registrar (the company you purchased your domain from)
  • Look for how to edit your domain’s DNS (this varies from registrar to registrar)
  • You’ll see an A record for our old address (67.207.139.81) for your main domain (sometimes called @)
  • Remove 67.207.139.81 and replace it with 209.20.70.130
  • Save your settings and wait (it could take anywhere for a couple minutes to a couple hours for the changes to kick in)

Posterous just raised $4.4 million!

Posted on March 6, 2010 by in Business

Simple blogging startup Posterous has raised $4.4 million in its first round of institutional funding from Redpoint Ventures, Trinity Ventures, and some other angels.

From Posterous’s blog:

Thanks to all our investors for the support and backing. With this money, we’re going to be expanding our team and building even faster!

Our goal is to become synonymous with “posting” just like Google is synonymous with “search”. Doesn’t matter if it’s for twitter or a blog, private or public, group or individual. If you need it online, you go to Posterous.

[via mrbambang]

 

WordPress builds Posterous importer

Posted on February 10, 2010 by in Tech

At the end of the day, that’s all about contents, instead of platforms. So you can choose which blogging platform works for you. Blogspot, WordPress, Tumblr, Posterous — name it. Just blog, which is good for you. Trust me :-D

WordPress just announced that they have created a “Posterous Importer” for hosted customers. Similar to their other importer tools, this new one takes the content on a Posterous blog and imports it into a wordpress.com hosted blog. The Posterous importer can import posts, tags, comments, and image attachments.

[via CenterNetwork]

Why I switched from WordPress to Posterous?

Posted on February 5, 2010 by in Tech

My answer will be much more like a practical issue rather than a technical issue. Posterous really makes my blogging activity easier: updating post, uploading pictures or even commenting can be done just via e-mail. That’s a really magical platform, I must say.

For a blogger like me, having busy to upgrade here and there and experiencing security issues (like I had when using WordPress) is really wasting my time. All I need is writing and writing –no matter where, when and how. And now, I can do that easily, thanks to Posterous.