{"id":2303,"date":"2012-05-09T09:49:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T07:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2012-05-09T09:49:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T07:49:21","slug":"the-iceland-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=2303","title":{"rendered":"The Iceland Project"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Iceland.\"<\/a>

A safe haven for our campaigns.<\/p><\/div>\n

One of the problems we’ve faced in the past – and not only us – is that sometimes our web host, 1&1 Internet, gets upset when targets of our email campaigns begin claiming that they’ve been spammed. \u00a0Or when too many messages sent through our campaigning system bounce back.<\/p>\n

They don’t want their server to be seen as a spammer or they could get blacklisted. \u00a0The problem is, when that happens they shut down – or threaten to shut down – the entire LabourStart site<\/strong>, which consists of a lot more than the campaign.<\/p>\n

I’ve thought for some time now that we need to separate out the campaigns from the rest of the site, and a while ago even registered the domain name labourstartcampaigns.org, but we let that lapse.<\/p>\n

This week, however, I’ve contacted our friends at the\u00a0WebArchitects<\/a> co-op in Sheffield (they helped get the original LabourStart newswires to work more than a decade ago) because they’re offering a very interesting web hosting deal. \u00a0It’s inexpensive and it’s based in Iceland on “green servers” powered by renewable clean energy. \u00a0And they’re touting Iceland’s commitment to an open and free internet. \u00a0You can read more about their project here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ve begun testing and hope to have something working in a few days. \u00a0There will be a short period of transition, but I hope the result will be a more secure, faster system, and an end to the threats to shut down LabourStart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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