mr-burns -> bubbles.impressive.net

from Gerald Oskoboiny <[email protected]>, Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:15:13 -0400

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For the last few years impressive.net has been hosted on a Magma
residential DSL line at home, on recycled hardware in a closet or
in my basement.

This has generally worked out well but I have sometimes worried
about the connection going down while I am away on an extended trip.
(not worried about my bulletproof debian stable system, just the
DSL or phone line going down, e.g. there has been occasional
flakiness in the place I'm living now because the phone jack is
on a 30' extension cord.)

Also, the DSL line's upstream ability is 640 kbps, and it would
be nice to have more than that. Also, my cvsroot backup no longer
fits on my backup server at MIT (mr-plow.shmop.net, a PPro with
64 MB RAM, and currently a 400+ day uptime :)

Also, I have thought about setting up various commercial services
that would need more bandwidth.

So, this week I signed up for a basic server at layeredtech.com:
http://layeredtech.com/order.php?packageId=46

For those of you with sites on mr-burns, I am rsyncing our stuff
there now, and I hope to have everything migrated in the next
week or so. I'll probably start asking people to chip in a bit
for hosting costs.

If anyone else is interested in subletting part of this box, let
me know. It doesn't have a ton of spare disk space, but more
could be added (prices range from $.50 to $.18/GB/month.)

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Gerald Oskoboiny <[email protected]>
http://impressive.net/people/gerald/

fogo list administrivia

from Gerald Oskoboiny <[email protected]>, Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:00:25 -0400

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* Gerald Oskoboiny <[email protected]> [2005-09-30 17:15-0400]
:
> this week I signed up for a basic server at layeredtech.com:
> http://layeredtech.com/order.php?packageId=46
>
> For those of you with sites on mr-burns, I am rsyncing our stuff
> there now, and I hope to have everything migrated in the next
> week or so.

I did this and disconnected mr-burns; unfortunately one thing I forgot
to grab a copy of was mailman data, including the fogo list config
and subscriber list.

So I just created a new fogo list, based on an ancient copy of the
config and subscriber list I had on another system.

If you are not subscribed with your preferred address, or had
removed yourself completely from the list, please do so again at
http://impressive.net/mailman/listinfo/fogo (or send me email)

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Gerald Oskoboiny <[email protected]>
http://impressive.net/people/gerald/

layered tech rocks (was Re: mr-burns -> bubbles.impressive.net)

from Gerald Oskoboiny <[email protected]>, Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:04:21 -0700

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(almost) two years ago I wrote:

* Gerald Oskoboiny <[email protected]> [2005-09-30 17:15-0400] in
http://impressive.net/archives/fogo/[email protected]

>So, this week I signed up for a basic server at layeredtech.com:
>http://layeredtech.com/order.php?packageId=46

Can I just say how pleased I am with both Layered Tech and Debian
GNU/Linux?

This system has been in continuous operation for 725 days now,
since the day I got it. I haven't had a single network outage or
any other incident in the last two years. That's quality hosting!

The Debian stable OS autoupgrades itself daily, and never breaks
anything. I spend maybe an hour a year maintaining this system.

It's not idle, either -- it averages about 100k web hits/day, up
to 400k one day when one of my photos ended up on the front page
of digg.com.

I rebooted it just now after 725 days of uptime and was nervous
that it might not come back due to all the software that had been
updated in the past couple years, but sure enough it was back a
few minutes later.

I was looking forward to hitting two years of uptime on Sep 30,
but the other day layered tech emailed me to notify me they'd be
rebooting this system some time tomorrow to add hardware that
will allow me to power cycle this system remotely (not that I'll
ever need it ;)

All this with real root access on dedicated hardware for
$60/month. Wow.

These guys would really have to screw something up at this point
to lose my business. I keep wishing I had more hosting needs just
so I could order a few more servers from them.

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Gerald Oskoboiny <[email protected]>
http://impressive.net/people/gerald/