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How to register Lunarpages private nameservers at Network Solutions

I recently upgraded my shared hosting plan to VPS Xen Cloud. My domain is registered with Network Solutions. Here are the instructions for updating the nameservers on Network Solutions. (Lunarpages offers instructions, but I’ve slightly improved them here.)

To create or update your name servers:

  1. Log in to Account Manager
  2. Go to Manage Name Servers and add your private nameservers with your ip address there
  3. Go to Find All Your Products Below and choose your domain and click “go”
  4. Click on the Edit link to the right of Designated DNS
  5. Type the name of the first new name server in the Name Server 1 text box, or select an existing name server from the drop down menu
  6. Type the name of the second new name server in the Name Server 2 text box, or select an existing name server from the drop down menu
  7. Type in the IP address
  8. Carefully review the DNS changes and if correct, click on the Save DNS button

Your name server(s) has been created or updated.

Making heads or tails of postbin

Mailchimp and Postbin

So Mailchimp recommends Postbin as a means of experimenting with their webhook. Sounded great.

At first, it was one of those “wrong pew wrong church” experiences. But once I untangled it, it was a big help.

How to Use Postbin

1. Type postbin.org into the address bar
2. Click on “make a postbin”
3. The resulting url in the address bar becomes your webhook. Swipe it. Keep it.
4. Use mailchimp’s webhook form to send this webhook to them.
5. Make a change, such as a subscribe or unsubscribe
6. View the webhook URL again
7. You will see the array contents

Then write some code

After seeing the results in postbin, I was then ready to write some PHP code that does nothing more than emails myself so I can see that I received all the webhook data from Mailchimp.