The other evening I found myself in the horrible position of seeing my server spit out disk errors like there was no tomorrow. Not willing to risk the machine going down when I would not be around I took a quick trip to the office supply store and picked up a new SATA drive. The…
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Get on the Web Part 3: FTP
This article is the third in a series of articles written to help you get online. This article does not require you to read any other article in the series (nor must they be read in order). Now that you have some web space and some software you want to install how do you get…
Get on the Web Part 2: Open Source Solutions
This article is the second in a series of articles written to help you get online. This article does not require you to read any other article in the series (nor must they be read in order). Now that you have an idea and a place to host your idea the next step in getting…
Get on the Web Part 1: Domains and Hosting
After fielding a number of questions on this subject from friends and family I have decided to sit down and write a series of articles on this subject. This is not a series about blogging but blogging will be discussed. I will attempt to answer as many questions as possible in each installment. Sit back…
New server, new problems
I now have a dedicated server. Yup, it’s all mine! which also means the problems are all mine too. “What kind of problems,” you ask? Well, I moved the first site over last night. It is a low traffic blog so I figured that would be the “testing” site I would use to make sure…
Are you dedicated?
All websites reach a point where the owners have to make a choice. Stay with shared hosting or go with a dedicated server. HMTK.com is about to hit that choice. I started HMTK.com about six years ago, it was June 22, 2002 to be precise when I first purchased this domain. In the early days…
How To: Use a cron job to backup your databases
If you run a web server that uses a database such as MySQL then you should be doing backups, often. When I was in charge of the web server for Kenzer and Company we used a 7-day rolling backup system. This system insured that, in the case of a problem, we had several days worth…