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 CPU2GB of DDR 800Mhz RAM250GB SATA DriveI could have…
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 do…
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 server…
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 wherein…