If you are seeing this post, then you are getting pages served from my new server at Slicehost. I still have to migrate my other web sites, and figure out how I’m going to mange email, but this was a big hurdle, and I’m glad to say that it went pretty smoothly. [...]
I am preparing to move all of my web and email hosting to a new server. I’ve been fortunate to have an in-trade hosting arrangement for many years now (thanks to Jeff at Iguanasoft!). But my host’s owner is winding down some of his equipment, and I had outgrown the server I was on. [...]
By Dougal
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Also posted in Announcements, Blogs, Personal, Tech, WordPress
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Tagged 1024slice, app, hosting, Linux, moving, Servers, Services, slice, slicehost, Ubuntu, WordPress, wordpressmu, wpmu
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I’m looking for a Virtual Private Server host. The server I’m currently on is woefully underpowered for the handful of sites I running (on the plus side, it’s been free), and it’s high time that I moved my stuff to a box that’s up to the task.
Ideally, I’d like the following features:
- Virtual Private Server with at least 1GB of RAM (preferably with root access within my instance).
- SSH shell access.
- Decent monthly bandwidth allotment (at least 250GB/month).
- Plenty of disk space (25GB would be be plenty, but I can live with less).
- Hosting of multiple web/email domains.
- PHP5 and MySQL 5.
- Ability to configure many email alias fowards within each domain.
- Procmail for mail filtering.
- DNS hosting, preferably with the ability to directly edit my own zone files, but I’ll live with a web interface if I have to.
Those are listed roughly in order of importance. [...]
By Dougal
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Also posted in Services, Tech
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Tagged bandwidth, dns, dom, domains, Hardware, hosting, hosts, MySQL, PHP, recommendations, sysadmin, virtualprivateserver, vps, webhosting
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This screenshot shows how glTail visualizes a comment spam attack in my configuration.
A few days ago, in my usual daily link browsing, I ran across a link to something called “glTail“, which was described as “realtime logfile visualization”. [...]
By Dougal
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Also posted in Applications, Open Source, Ruby, WordPress
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Tagged Apache, Graphics, logs, monitoring, Ruby, Servers, Spam, sysadmin, tools, visualization, WordPress
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Over the last few days, it’s possible that you might have tried to visit this site and gotten a blank page. It’s not you, it’s me. Or more precisely, it’s my server, and my attempts to eek a little more performance out of it.
The problem seems to come from APC (Alternative PHP Cache). [...]
Some of you might have noticed that my site had some downtime over the weekend, and into Monday night. I had upgraded MySQL from version 3.23.x to version 5.0 last week. Everything seemed fine at the time, but when the server ran some maintenance tasks on Saturday night, it turned up some mismatched library versions between PHP and MySQL. [...]
My server has experienced some downtime over the last couple of days. Probably my own fault, due to some changes I made in some service monitor scripts. After trying to manually wrangle things for a while and still experiencing mysterious performance issues, I finally rebooted the box this morning. [...]
I only had a couple of responses to my call for SpamValve testers. One of the testers has already begun using SpamValve on his FreeBSD server. The other is tied up at the moment, but is going to attempt to adapt it to work on a Linux server sometime next week.
In the meantime, I’ve started using it to filter spam hits to my mail service. [...]
I think I’m almost ready to let some other people bang on SpamValve. I want to get a closed group of users to try it out and give me some feedback before I release it to the general public. [...]
By Dougal
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Also posted in Blogs, Plugins, Spam, Tech, WordPress
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Tagged Perl, PHP, plugin, Plugins, Programming, Spam, SpamValve, Web
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