The Godaddy scam

 

I have heard of this scam but I didnt believe it.

• Keep receiving mails about domains expiring soon, even though auto renew is set and the sometimes the early renewal is already done
• keep receiveing mails about payment method missing but when I login and check, the credit card info is still present and tested to be working, including paypal.
• You end up ignoring such mails later, thinking that it is just another false flag, just like before and boom, you lose your domain.
• I cannot confirm but I heard that it is an organised scam by employee+buyer to do this to the owner of a domain that they are intersted in, keep torturing him/her with fake alerts, enough fake alerts to make sure that they soon start ignoring such mails and once they do, the auto renew somehow fails or never triggers the auto renewal and you lose your domain.

The above btw has happened to me, I fortunately bought that domain again from some other provider and then transferred it to godaddy. I want to know whether such things have happened with you as well. Most of my domains are .in and I am thinking of transferring all to cloudflare.

Plex server, issues and workarounds

 Problem: Every now and then on windows plex client refuses to launch, even though plex server is launched & working. 

Solution: 

1. Exit/kill all plex services (probably from the tray menu or task manager)
2. win key + R to open the run command window and input %localappdata%
3. Delete the Plex folder, not the plex server or plex media folder.
4. Now launch the plex media server and then the plex client itself, login and use it as usual

Problem: Plex asks for pin every time you launch it.

Solution:

1. Click on the wrench icon which takes you to settings
2. in the left panel, click on your username
3. Check mark, *automatically sign in* option