I was going to launch a new blog that focuses completely on making money online, but really I don’t think I have time for it. So, if I feel like I have time to blog about it in the future — I’ll launch it, but as of right now it’s not going to happen. I don’t intend to be JohnChow or Shoemoney, and probably not ppc.bz. (the only real affiliate marketing blog I’ve found..) It’ll be my own style if I decide to go down that route.

I’ll continue to blog about tech on here when I get the chance or I get a new device

Please put your input in the comments area, and I will search for another theme if the comments are primarily negative. Thanks

Be aware however that I am not professional in any way on the forums. Many humorous or NSFW things are posted in the chat section. Check it out here: http://technologyinsanity.com/forum/

Also, there is a running contest for free ad space on my site for registered users of the forum, check it out here: http://technologyinsanity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=13.

That should be about it. Hopefully I’ll see you in the forums.

This is why I am seriously considering turning off comments on this blog. Don’t worry, comments will still function, however they will be on the forum instead of directly under the post. This first post is a trial to see how it works out. I could restrict comments to only wordpress registered users, or install other captchas for comments. However, I have been looking to expand my forum a little bit, and overall it’s easier to manage.

How is it easier? The captcha is a decent one already integrated into phpBB, which allows guests to post. I also think that the forum gives a clearer view of the discussion, rather than a bunch of comments.

You will be allowed to place your website url in your signature, if you register or in your comment if you post as a guest.

The posts will go like this, I will have a direct link to the forums at the bottom of every post, and at the forums comments will take place. No registration is required.  If I get zero comments I will consider rolling back, and trying out captchas on the comments. I know some of you may not like this, but realize it makes it easier for me.

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ExtremeTechie I may drop a little more, maybe 300 for a little while  since it’s just starting out, but I’m not too worried about traffic to this site anymore. I get some from search engines and advertising. Constant dropping of 300 cards a day is tiresome, and it provides very little good traffic to my site. I know a lot of people that now read my site came from EC, but I’m finding it’s just not worth it to stress over dropping all the time.

In due time I may completely drop EC from this site so I can use some other advertising. That might be awhile yet, and like I said I will continue to use EC, but not to the extreme extent I was.

I expect my popularity rating to plumet, but I don’t really care much, popularity rating really doesn’t mean anything.

A bigger reason is that I was finding dropping EC was taking up too much time, time that could have been spent blogging. So, I’m trading EC dropping for more posts on the site.

This blog will focus on the random stuff that I have been posting here or the stuff that is just ranting. Really, I want this blog to stay more on topic and not go off into never never land

Don’t worry, I will still be posting here quite often when it’s most definitely technology related.

Remember, it’s not just Apache & MySQL that’s running on this box. I have my ircd, mail, php, ispconfig, the OS etc also running. It all consumes memory It’s not that I get a ton of traffic, but when 5-10 people hit my site at once, it goes down.

If anyone can give me suggestions on various MySQL & Apache configs, that would be appreciated, I have scoured the net to look for different configs, and when I find one that works well, I will post it here.

So far, it seems like my problems are pretty much solved, but I’d still like to tweak a bit to get the most out of it.

Thank you.

On a side note, the forums are there as well,  which I notice no one has really bothered with besides Rise Of Despair. We are having loads of fun talking to ourselves

Anyway just a reminder these services are available if you want to pop by.

I had another problem with my mail on the VPS and I’m sorting that right now – so don’t e-mail admin at technologyinsanity dot com just yet, it’s not working. Instead, e-mail me at admin at s0uthp4rk dot com as it’s still on my old host.

I would be lying if I said I wasn’t having fun playing with my VPS though. It’s great fun. Yea, I’m weird like that.

Normal dropping will continue once I’m sure things are going well on this server. I will probably drop today though after I get some sleep.

Thank you for understanding

I think webalizer is screwed up it said I got almost 500 visits today – that can’t be right, can it?

e-mail is up.. I guess I’m done? Maybe apache could use a little more tweaking I dunno I don’t know who was advertising on me yesterday but I’m willing to give 256EC to that person, because it was NOT a good day I also went through and tweaked MySQL, and well I have plenty of memory now Only using about 37MB/128MB memory for everything! You could probably grab hosting from me now, don’t see why not. So long as you don’t get more than a few thousand hits a day should be fine I would guess.

I would recommend RapidXen for your VPS needs.

I’ve went through and tried to kill all unnecessary processes, so let’s hope mysqld doesn’t crash again Some of you may have noticed I screw around with my site a lot, sorry

I tweaked apache a bit.. I might need a  little more but it seems a bit better now.

UPDATE: Wow a lot better.. I think I’m on to something here

UPDATE2: NICE!! Seems as though I’ve found the magic secret… Tweaking Apache.. I’m still going to get the memory upgrade, but now things are going well!

Memory issue solved.. I now have free memory.. Phew!