What's My IP (FREE Windows App)

I recently started playing around with Visual Studio to develop Windows apps. Mostly for fun but I also have some ideas of apps that I thought would be useful so I built them to help me with some simple tasks that just need to be a bit quicker. This one is called “What’s My IP” released on the evening of 2019-12-10. What does it do? Because I work in IT/networking I often need to get the public IP of the network I’m sitting behind....

December 10, 2019 · 2 min · Chris Lange

Are you backing up your backup?

If you don’t have at least 2 copies of your backup does your backup even exist? Cloud backup is great, I use it for my computers and servers every day so I know that my data is backed up to an offsite location in the event of a disaster or issue with any of these devices or services. Having a backup stored in a single cloud storage solution is better than not having one but it’s not full proof....

October 1, 2019 · 4 min · Chris Lange

How I Monitor Website Uptime

It’s very frustrating having just launched your shiny new website and then it goes down due to overloaded traffic, a bug in the code or a system failure. But what’s worse is not knowing that it’s gone down until a customer tells you! I run my own web hosting and IT consultancy business, CL Servers. The uptime and speed at which I can serve customer websites is crucial to the business....

November 15, 2018 · 3 min · Chris Lange