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2020Media is a leading UK web host offering Linux and Windows website hosting. The company specialises in WordPress, Joomla and Drupal support.

Results of HTML/Text email survey

Newsletter Format Preference
Newsletter Format Preference

In our April newsletter (sign up on the right) we ran a survey asking if our customers preferred to get their newsletters in HTML or plain-text format. The results have been checked and counted by our resident bean-counters and it was a close result. If we’d had a third option we’d probably be feeling like the Lib-Dems.

56% preferred HTML newsletters

44% preferred plain-text newsletters

Internet Policy – you decide

How you can become involved and help ICANN to shape the future of the Internet

ICANN, the governing body of the internet is holding two web meetings on 20th May 2010 that are aimed at you.  The sessions will be held on Thursday 20 May at 12.00 GMT and 19.00 GMT, and will use a webinar format – all you’ll need is a web browser and internet connection to listen or participate.

If you are wondering whether a role in Internet policy development could benefit your or your organization’s long-term goals, it’s well worth joining.

In order to participate, we suggest you read the announcement here: WEBINAR: Policy Development at ICANN and sign up to join in.

Flood and Fire in Paddington affects Broadband

Burne House (courtesy of Google streetview)

A central London network node belonging to BT disastrously flooded and caught fire yesterday.

The incident at Burne House in north Paddington affected landlines, broadband and mobile services across the west of London. Over  400 local exchanges are connected from this site, so connectivity was also affected across the south east and further afield.

“The flood water has been removed from the exchange building overnight and power supply has begun to be restored,” BT said this morning.

“We are now beginning to restore communications services to customers and this work will continue throughout the day.”

The impact of the great torrent/inferno was even felt on the continent. There have been reports that roaming for Vodafone, O2 and 3 customers in Austria is currently down, with operators pointing the finger at Paddington.

Read more at TheRegister

Excluding directories in AJP ProxyPass

Configuring Apache with Tomcat

You might have ProxyPass configured to pass all requests to Tomcat. However its better to serve some content directly from Apache for speed – images for instance. If you arrange your site into a well planned folder structure you can exclude certain folders in proxy_ajp.conf.

You might have this:

ProxyPass / ajp://localhost:8080/

Just add this line BEFORE the catch-all above:

ProxyPass /images !
ProxyPass / ajp://localhost:8080/

The file is parsed in order, so the exclude must come first.

Watch out for more Tomcat tips and tricks in the future.  Information on our market leading Tomcat hosting can be found here