Cloud

…in most cases you have 2 options. Because we are living in Cloud and VPS era – it’s not a big deal. You can always bump up your volume and after while you can enjoy bigger more expensive instance with more space. But sometimes you need just a space for a while or… just something for a backup ? You can always use s3cmd , gsutil or another tool. Imagine that you have just regular folder on your drive, with almost unlimited space. Sounds good ? If so checkout –  s3fs-fuse . Nice tool, which allows you to bind external storage as a director in your system.

BrowserStack is well known service which provides awesome tools to test your website against different browsers and operating systems. It’s very handy when it comes to professional QA testing.

Not everyone knows, that from that place  you can also download virtual machines for free. On this page Virtual Machine  you can pull multiple VM images with IE8 / IE 9 and different versions of windows.

I’m huge fan of AWS services. It just works – don’t need any kind of support, prices are really good. No issues whatsoever. But – of course my nature ask me to check out other options. For example Rackspace . So I registered account, filled out my business and credit details. Just to give a small background – got registered business since 2011 in Australia. I filled out my CC details, phone number and so on. Pretty standard process. I logged in, and start playing with their interface (pretty slow, but I shouldn’t complain yet). The best is about to come…

Couple months ago I listed  services having  API for sending and receiving emails . One of them was mailgun – I was using it for a while since… yesterday. My account was locked without any valid reason. Something related with SPAM:

http://documentation.mailgun.com/razor.html  Reference: #rzr01.

Because I know exactly what emails are being sent using my accounts (I keep track of each email coming out from the system) I was really interested how it could happen. Who reported message as a SPAM, and which one was that.