Warren Reptiles

Google Apps standard changes coming

Heath — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:38:37 +0000

Google will soon be limiting the number of user accounts to 10 users. Currently and for a short time yet, the standard free package gives you 50 user accounts. All of my hosting customers are setup with Google Apps which is how you have a Gmail account using your own domain. Current users and those who sign up until the limit is put in place will be grandfathered in and still have the ability to create up to 50 user accounts.

Gmail glitch wipes out 150,000 Accounts

Heath — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:20:34 +0000

(via LifeHacker.com) I read about a scary “glitch” this morning regarding the wipeout of 150,000 gmail accounts. I am not aware of any of “our” users being affected at this point. This can be a gruesome reminder of what can happen if your data is not backed up. Google provides some great services but anything can happen even with the most stable services. In the lifehacker.com article many of the readers have commented about a service I wasn’t aware of but am now trying out. Backupify.com will backup several cloud based services including gmail, google calender, and google contacts (other services like facebook also). You can sign up for a free account which allows you to backup 5 accounts and gives you 2GB of storage. This should be plenty for gmail contacts, calender, and probably email unless you save a lot attachments. Setup is very easy if you are already signed into your gmail account, just go to www.backupify.com and click signup!

Note: I am not affiliated with with backupify.com in any way it just comes as a highly recommended option for backing up your cloud data and I wanted to pass on the info

New services available to Google Apps!

Heath — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:07:28 +0000

What does this mean?? Well, all of my web hosting customers have their email accounts setup under Google Apps. This allows the use of the awesome features of Gmail but with your own domain name. With Google Apps domains comes a few cool other features like Google Docs and Gtalk the instant messaging service. Just this week Google as released the full integration of ALL of the great services it offers, with Google Apps accounts. This means you can tie in many more services and keep track of them all using your personal Google Apps email accounts. Watch the video and check the link for more details on activating this on your Google Apps domain. I have just activated the new features on our WarrenReptiles domain so we will be diving right in. Feel free to contact me with any questions or if you want this activated on your domain. The Google documentation will have more details than I do at this point but I will do my best to answer any questions.

http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=28917

Service outage 9/30/2010

Heath — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:50:27 +0000

Apologies for the server outage yesterday, I’m not sure how long it was but I didn’t notice it until I got home later last night. Some log files got out of control and filled all of the free space on the OS drive in the server. Services where brought back online pretty easily but I will be looking into some more adjustments.

New Boaphile Cage!

Leigh Ann — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:29:08 +0000

The new Boaphile arrived! It was pretty much ready to go right out of the box. I let it air out for a day and Heath worked on making sure the thermostat was keeping the proper temp and then it was ready for occupation. It is now home to my two and a half year old female red tailed boa. She seems to like it. I am quite pleased with the quality and workmanship. If you are interested in a Boaphile of your own the website is www.boaphileplastics.com

New Tattoo!!

Heath — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:57:36 +0000

So I’ve known for a long time (years) what I would get if I actually got a tattoo. Well I decided this last year that when I turn(ed) 30 this year (May 23) that I would finally do it. I finally did it! Last night was my appointment. The experience was pretty intense but I really like it!

Check it out: http://warrenreptiles.com/gallery/default.aspx?aid=97

Summah Time!

Heath — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:44:40 +0000

Well spring anyway It’s been hotter then heck already this spring here in MI. Not much new to report other than business as usual. We ordered a new enclosure for my wife’s rapidly growing red tail boa last week from www.boaphileplastics.com and excited about the arrival in a few weeks. Our African soft-fur rat population is growing again after cutting back over the winter. I am getting spring fever and wanting to look into more new enclosures for my snakes, maybe trying to sell a couple and focus on just a couple pairs I want to breed…I don’t know, we’ll see what happens. Oh and I have a tattoo appointment scheduled! My first, and a bad ass design if I do say so myself. I can’t wait to get it done, it’s my “turning 30″ idea and is of course reptile related.

New Website!

Heath — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 02:08:30 +0000

Well I just cut over to the new website. It was long overdue for a face lift and a better method to keep it updated. Since this site has never been overly complicated I decided to go with WordPress and use it manage the site. Since all I really have going on is a few mostly static pages I think this work out well. I will be tweaking things here there I’m sure but its good enough for now. The only thing really not incorporated yet is the photo gallery which I will work on next.

Happy Spring!