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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Posted in Servers, Services, Tech
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Also tagged bandwidth, dns, domains, Hardware, hosting, hosts, MySQL, PHP, recommendations, sysadmin, virtualprivateserver, vps, webhosting
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This past Wednesday, I got to go see the Thrashers play the Bruins, courtesy of a visit from Geof Morris (thanks for the ticket, Geof!). Geof and I have known each other via the net for quite a while, and we have some friends in common from back when I used to live in Huntsville. [...]
I know, I know… I haven’t been very active on the blogging front lately. Once again I’ve been sucked into a swirling vortex of job and home projects, with little-to-no time for participating in blogdom. I’ve managed to keep up with most of the latest memes, and I’ve added a few new del.icio.us bookmarks, but there’s been no opportunity to develop any nifty code or write about the subject of the day.
I’ve got eight draft posts in my queue, and three of those are no longer timely, and so I’ll probably end up deleting them. [...]
By Dougal
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Posted in Blogs, Family, Holidays, Personal, WordPress, Work
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Also tagged Perl, plugin, Plugins, this-site, Web, WordPress
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Phil Ringnalda’s site is now powered by WordPress.
But, I’m never again going to see my weblog software returning Perl’s infuriatingly common response to any problem, “Internal Server Error. [...]
There’s a new plugin for MovableType called SpamLookup. Let’s compare this add-on to the anti-spam features already in the WordPress core:
Feature Comparison for MT SpamLookup Plugin vs. [...]
The topic of Ajax is pretty hot right now. And some people are getting a little hot over the naming. As I pointed out yesterday, and as Ian Hickson and Dare Obasanjo have also said, Ajax is not a new technology. [...]
The world’s smallest Peer-to-Peer application, written in 15 lines of Python code: TinyP2P.
TinyP2P is a functional peer-to-peer file sharing application, written in fifteen lines of code, in the Python programming language. [...]
Poisoning the well
Overall, the volume of spam attempts on my server have been down lately. Oh, I still get a steady stream, I delete over 100 comment spams (caught by my filters) each day. But I’ve seen fewer of the massive, server-squashing spam runs that hammer my web service with too many simultaneous connections, blocking out legitimate users.
On the other hand, I’m seeing a lot more attempts by spammers to poison the well. [...]