My name is Philip McGaw and owner of skippy.org.uk.

A website that your company hosts (according to WHOIS information) is infringing on at least one copyright owned by myself.

An article was copied onto your servers without permission.

The original article, to which we own the exclusive copyrights, can be found at:

http://skippy.org.uk/windows-2008-r2-on-my-macbook-pro/

The unauthorized and infringing copy can be found at:

http://www.gadgetdegree.com/gadgets/windows-2008-r2-on-my-macbook-pro/

This letter is official notification under Section 512(c) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (”DMCA”), and I seek the removal of the aforementioned infringing material from your servers. I request that you immediately notify the infringer of this notice and inform them of their duty to remove the infringing material immediately, and notify them to cease any further posting of infringing material to your server in the future.

Please also be advised that law requires you, as a service provider, to remove or disable access to the infringing materials upon receiving this notice. Under US law a service provider, such as yourself, enjoys immunity from a copyright lawsuit provided that you act with deliberate speed to investigate and rectify ongoing copyright infringement. If service providers do not investigate and remove or disable the infringing material this immunity is lost. Therefore, in order for you to remain immune from a copyright infringement action you will need to investigate and ultimately remove or otherwise disable the infringing material from your servers with all due speed should the direct infringer, your client, not comply immediately.

I am providing this notice in good faith and with the reasonable belief that rights I own are being infringed. Under penalty of perjury I certify that the information contained in the notification is both true and accurate, and I have the authority to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright(s) involved.

Should you wish to discuss this with me please contact me directly.

Thank you.

Philip McGaw

philipmcgaw.com

{Address block removed}

I got the template letter for my DMCA takedown notice from IPWatchdog,

While I have never received a DMCA takedown notice, and probably would laugh at some one for sending me one; (my server is in Leeds, UK) because they don’t have any legal standing in the UK, and while as far as I am aware there is no UK equivalent of the crazy US law, I would probably act on it; or at least work out a way to mitigate.

unfortunately for GadgetDegree they are in the US, and so are their Servers.

It can deal with all the sites, and the plugins required by each to make them work as required. However one of the things I really hate about WordPress is that it requires MySQL as a backend, which for a site with so little content change between requests, and caching for when there is a huge increase in hits (I use WP Super Cache).

On a number of occasions I have tried to use the PDO (SQLite) plugin, however it has never worked as well as I would like; and now it seems not to have been updated since January 2010, however according to this post on the authors site, he will be looking at bringing the PDO up to date.

Now I know bma has some things to say about SQLite, but compare that with MySQL, and remember all that caching from above reduces the chance of Concurrency (and that seems to be less of an issue in V3).

Now why would I want to use SQLite? my logic is that a database is just a file some where on the file system managed by another process, If I can move that file into the location where that copy of WordPress is installed I can make backups of the state of everything in one go, as well as move the entire install +Database between computers by uploading just one zip, with out needing to do a Database Dump + Restore.

If I could, I would really like to see is WordPress with a Flat File back end, I know there is FlatPress, but its still not looking like anywhere near ready to trust, however I will have a go with it on a test machine.

At some point I should also write a post about the technology and software that goes into running this site, as well as outline my workflow.

Well, since they took over the mostly reliable iFuse hosting has had a number of extended outages, and response to support tickets and emails is non existent.

Things have got even worse recently when they invoiced my for my hosting fees, I went to try and pay them but have they wanted to take my money? Have they responded to my trying to give them money? Well no. so unable to contact them (they have no contact details in the public domain that I can find) my account has been suspended.

Due to my set up not being the normal set up on the server, everything other than CamCrew.co.uk still works.

Now with a lot of digging and poking it seems that Yomura Holdings is a part of LTT, Libya Telecom – and Technology who have a twitter account, so I am now waiting for a response from them.