As I’ve mentioned many times before, we’ve got several thousand domains. This weeks boring, monotonous task was to alter the DNS settings for all the ones we don’t use so they point to one of our new servers. With 1and1, this involves going into the Control Panel and then clicking on the DNS settings and entering the new IP address for it. Easy.
Well, it would be if 1and1′s “Award Winning” Control Panel wasn’t so useless for people with more than a few domains, and forced you to do them one at a time. Luckily, that’s where the FireFox extension, FireForm comes in. I know that the Google Toolbar will let you automatically fill in forms, but it’s only intended for filling in your standard information like name and address.
The good thing about FireForm is that you can create profiles and then customise them to fill in any form fields you want. This is brilliant for 1and1 as a quick look at the page source lets me set up FireForm with the IP address fields and the IP address of my server. Brilliant, this should save me about 12 hours over the next few days plus I can watch repeats of TOp Gear at the same type as I don’t need to type now!
I'm a web developer based in the East Midlands, UK and if I keep up the current rate, I might have developed 3 million sites by the time I retire