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I have been BUSY

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

Sorry Entrecard and everyone else.. I’ve just been so busy I haven’t even had time to drop. So many things went wrong on my VPS.. So many things I needed to learn, and yet I’m still learning. I must be really rusty with Linux or I’m too used to having a GUI. I think it’s both. Kind of rusty, and really not used to not having a GUI for Linux. Also, the crashing really had nothing to do with the memory on the VPS. Apache just needs to be configured correctly.

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.

Yes, there are some issues with my VPS.. What fun would it be if there wasn’t?

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Any way the low memory is causing my server to crash, even with my low amount of traffic. It will be upgraded soon though so don’t worry about it too much :P

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 :D

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!

My VPS

Monday, January 5th, 2009

My VPS is about setup now, I went through and installed ISPConfig, because really I don’t trust EHCP, it just *looks* like it could be full of bugs, and prone to exploits. ISPConfig has more options anyway, the only thing I don’t like is it doesn’t have easy install scripts, but those are just for the lazy anyway :) I did my tests on my .co.cc domain so I’d know everything would be working correctly for when I made the real switch. It will be pretty soon – but I don’t expect the site to have too much down time anyway. It should be quicker, this host lags a lot for me, but my VPS doesn’t at all. I’m pretty sure I saw it download a file at 10MB/s unless I was hallucinating :P

ISPConfig will allow for others to sign up, I don’t know how many sites it can support, probably a few though. I bought this VPS for 1 year so I have plenty of time with it, not just 1 month.

Just a heads up there may be some downtime soon, but this should be the last time. I think I have things the way I want them.

If you do get free hosting from me, I will want an ad for my site to appear somewhere on your site where the users will be. IE not in the footer of the page.

Site was down

Friday, December 19th, 2008

I don’t know if any of you noticed, but the site was down for a little bit while I had my host switch technologyinsanity.com to the main domain.

Sorry if there was any inconvenience.