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.. So I’m moved at last .. took a little while to get the DNS to point through properly .. but all my services are now switched over to my SliceHost account. Now I just gotta stabilize everything and actually deploy something new.

(please use my referrer link if you choose to sign up for SliceHost

I’m tired of not being able to properly run rails apps on Dreamhost (not really so annoyed with their recent downtimes as just not being able to run rails properly .. don’t believe them when you see “fully supported rails” on their website)

Long story short, they have aggressive scripts killing persistent processes (such as fastcgi’s) .. so even fcgi rails apps end up slow .. since they need to boot up rails fairly often on lower traffic sites ..

I came across a post on the onrails.org blog explaining their switch to a new VPS based host called SliceHost .. I took a look, liked the idea of a $20/month VPS .. and am in the middle of a switch .. I’m slowly switching services over and settings up things on the VPS .. I switched my name servers away from dreamhost’s back to Enom’s so I regain control of their locked records .. so thats switching around the world as I post this.

I started switching all the svn repositories over, and I’ll be switching dev.t-p-l.com over soon .. so in the unlikely case of someone using them .. thats why they’re down =)

I’m also going to take a plunge and switch my email to gmail hosted .. should make things easier .. just have to ease in my users to the switch before I flip the name servers (I’m going to have to end up needing to find some gmail hosted notifiers for windows .. oh well .. shouldn’t be that big of a deal)

p.s. if you end up choosing to get a slicehost account because of reading this blog, please put my email address as your referer when signing up its: piotr/dot/banasik/at/gmail/dot/com (of course turn this into a valid email address, use my my referer link)

My server got hacked, so this probably won’t get posted for a while. I’m typing this as I rebuild the box.

I’ve been kind wanting to do this for a while .. but I never got around to completely flipping my network around.

Originally I had a Linux server running as my router/mail/web server. I’ve had one of the Linksys WRT54G Routers sitting around just acting as an access point for me, I decided to switch fully to using it (especially since I have the Sveasoft firmware for it, adding a whole lot of features to it, really more than that I had set up on my server).

After about an hour of tinkering .. its all switched over, mostly turning stuff off on the server and making it behave when its not in charge, I’ll probably have to keep fixing stuff as I go along, but so far so good, atleast basic internet and critical services from the outside work (mail+web). So this keeps me content for a while, I’ll have to fix up my install of TorrentFlux, I was kind of banking on the server being in charge of the network before, so I’ll probably have to forward some ports to make it work again, but it all can be fixed, and now I rely less on the server, overall its all good, and more reliable (server can crash and the network stays up).

The Linux kernel never ceases to amaze me, my local “users” at home reported the internet not working, so I went to the server expecting it to be panicked or something … but no .. it was fine .. I root in .. check the load .. it was fine .. so I hit dmesg ..

... and this is what I see

TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer 68.156.10.16:8732/49164 shrinks window 1426476487:1426479407. Repaired.

I love kernel messages.

As mentioned below here, I was moving. I finally got the server back up!

Pioneer, the box the site and my mail and such are hosted, has dedided to die on me recently. Had to run without email for a day, then downgraded the box to its old stats (Celeron 466), atleast I had mail again. Since it decided to die the night before Canada Day, I couldnt even get replacement parts for it. Finally 2 days later I got a new motherboard and ram for the box, and now the box runs on 512M of DDR, a fair bit of improvement from its old ram back at the board that fried. Also, just about the same time (a few days before), the power supply on pioneer fried aswell (well the fan died). So now pioneer has a new power supply too.

As fate would have it, the new board and the new power supply, and the case didnt go well together. The intake fan on the power supply ended up right above the cpu fan. Suffice to day they were competing for the same air, and if anything the power supply ended up sucking in the hot air from the cpu. Thus pioneer ended up needing a new box, conveniently on my junk pile I had my old desktop case, so pioneer grew a fair bit in the process of being repacked to a new box. I’m going to make and post some side by side photos of the old case and the new case.

here is the link to the gallery

Pioneer has finally got an upgrade, it was crawling and I didnt have the time to rip it apart and put it back together. I finally found the time and here we have it.

Old Config: Celeron 466Mhz, 512M Ram

New Config: Athlon XP 1800+ 1.5Ghz, 380M Ram (less ram because less slots on MB, will have to rectify this problem sometime)

I’m going to need to recompile a few things for the new CPU, also I guess I’ll finally take the 2.6 kernel plunge.