The joys of having your very own dedicated server

The joys of having your very own dedicated server. There aren’t any. Unless you count the faster access speeds, better data transfer in other words, less downtime etc.

No-one mentions the downsides. Like the greatly increased monthly costs, or the hourly fees for a “remote-hands” techies to re-boot it, or just thump it for you. Lets not forget the constant upgrading of server software, almost daily in fact just to stay ahead of the scammers, hackers, and dickheads.

Then there’s the stuffups, like when you forget you are logged in as “root” and you upgrade a users site for them, then they come back screaming because they cannot overwite the html file that is now owned by user “root”. No matter, a quick “chown -R” should fix that.

So you try to offset your costs with a few Google Adsense adverts, and the money really starts to roll in, and you find that in no time at all you are earning nearly $10 bucks a month! Yep, that certainly goes a long way towards paying for that server not.

Written by Bloke on October 16th, 2008 with no comments.
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New Ozifree site is done

Well after much hard work we have successfully re-coded the entire OziFree website. As we mentioned earlier in another post, we have retained a theme similar to the original, but without all the clutter.

Everything is now managed from one menu bar, with drop down sub-menus. Some categories with many sub-pages such as the Nigerian 419 email scams have an additional menu-bar located at the top of each page.

Another big change is that the single plugboard page has now been replaced with individual pages for each different PlugPanel. Each PlugPanel now displays the installation code required at the bottom of the page.

We have gone all out and have purchased our own HP Proliant web server, and have co-located it directly within a major data-center in Australia. This way we have direct connection to the internet, and are no longer reliant upon the routers and web servers of others.

Written by Bloke on October 16th, 2008 with no comments.
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