So You Want To Be A Linux System Administrator?
I was digging through Server Fault today looking for some thoughts on CARP (think HSRP, just free) and came across an honest and interesting question. The author wanted to know what skills and experience would make him more desirable in the world of UNIX like operating systems. I began to answer his question and found [...]
Shared Web Hosting Is Not Dead
An old colleague of mine was telling me of his plans to finally, after almost fifteen years of working for someone else, start his own hosting venture. My first instinct was of course to offer this poor soul some Lithium, seeing that his existing salary as CTO is more than triple the amount of profit [...]
You May Have Xen – But How About Tofu?
Enough procrastinating. I have been working on a Xen friendly operating system for several years, a lot of the time has been spent waiting to see what happened with pv_ops in mainline Linux. Two years later, we’re still waiting to see what happens to pv_ops in Mainline Linux. Everything else (such as the Xen API, [...]
Its Almost Always The Code, Not The Server
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to deal with people who had their web site compromised who named their hosting server as the weakest link. 99.99% of the time, if your site is defaced or found to link to on-line Viagra vendors, its your fault, not the hosting provider. Usually, this kind [...]
The Planet – a teaching disaster
About 7000 people got a health dose of Murphy’s Law when The Planet’s H1 data center exploded this week. Whatever can go wrong will go wrong. Whatever can’t go wrong will probably go wrong too. For those of you who don’t follow the hosting industry, The Planet had an explosion in their electrical room knock [...]
Layered Technologies hikes prices
Holy cost of doing business Batman! Layered Tech, one of the largest providers of leased & racked commodity servers has raised prices across the board one more time. The latest increase means an additional $20 per server per month (on average) for most customers. I have received not one, not five, not ten, not twenty [...]
Echoreply has gone .geek
For those of you who use OpenNIC , this site can now be accessed via http://echoreply.geek For more information on why ICANN really means ICANT, read the RegisterFly story. I’m in favor of democratic naming, so I support OpenNIC. I want top level domains that work, without supporting registrars who make millions pre-registering domains while [...]
The cost of brain picking
I’ve been conversing with someone who was interested in one of the free software projects that I’m managing. I spent no less than 15 hours explaining (in detail) what we’re planning, how its structured and how he could adopt it for his business. I also mentioned that the next release was 3 months away. The [...]
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