I recently purchased a new server from Dell and settled on the PowerEdge T105. I didn’t max it out when I ordered it because I know most things can be purchased later for a much lower cost. What I did settle on is listed below: Opteron 1212 CPU 2GB of DDR 800Mhz RAM 250GB SATA…
Tag: Server
Monitor Your Server With Cron
Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where you want to know what your server is doing but you can’t get to a secure terminal to SSH in. What do you do? You look to cron. Cron is a daemon that can be found in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. What it allows you to…
HOWTO: Replacing a Failing Drive on a FreeBSD System
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…
A simple program to search large text files
A few years ago I took over webmaster duties for a very active community forum. About a month into the job the unthinkable happened, we lost the table that contained all of the posts! I had backups (7 day rolling system) but the backups were a good 24 hours old and the server kept dropping…
Moving a Blog
I have been a long time reader of Ms. Q’s writing over at QMusings and in that time I have gotten to know Ms. Q fairly well. As well as you can get to know anyone on the Internet one would suppose. While checking my email this morning I found a message from Ms. Q…
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…