Tag Archive: Servers


Google’s servers DOWN!!

Filed Under: General
May.16, 2009

Having been running a web hosting company for a few years in my life has made me aware how much downtime costs. People just get mad when their sites dont show up to their clients. Once, a long downtime on my Windows server made me transfer the ownership to someone else who is more capable of doing it better than me.

Since morning, I tired to use google about 7 times to search for various things, and I found that the big G was down. Holy fucking shit, does this happen to google too? Imagine a dying man searching for life insurance in google and finding it down :D

People like me who depend on google for their lives would only now realize how important google is for them. As for me, I can’t do a thing right without google. Be it configuring a server, or to find the conversion rates, or to check the weather in places.

Earlier I used to feel crippled when I was away from the internet, now I feel crippled without google itself and I am unable to make up my mind to have yahoo or msn substitute it.

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R=nonlocal: Mailing to remote domains not supported

Filed Under: General
Oct.18, 2008

Vivekananda or someone said about a hundred years ago that the more you learn the more you discover your ignorance. I am just in the beginning stages of discovering how ignorant I have been. Well, there have been errors that I have never come across in the past, and maybe it was because I was busy selling hosting to meet my commitments.

Only after I have sold Indyahozting I find myself to be learning a lot of things about linux. And ubunut is helping me a lot in it.

I have installed ubuntu on my computer only for the great usage of gnome, It is nearly 2 years since I have started using ubuntu, and I have not found one better distro that would let me use my computer to the fullest extent. Not fedora, not gentoo not anything else. The RPM based distros are only good for the servers and not for desktops.

Yesterday on a friend’s server, the mails were not going out, and he had asked me to look into it. Adn this was the error that I had got. 209.172.41.200.

I checked the resolver at /etc/resolv.conf and it showed the right nameserver IPs. Then I did a

dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config

and a blue screen opened up to let me reconfigure the exim options. And then it was done. I was able to send out emails.

This task helped me discover the option of sending email from commandline.

mail -v email@gmail.com
Subject : Howdy
Howdy dudy?
.
Cc :

and you will find that the mails are sent with your computer’s name as

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Digital Fingerprinting

Filed Under: General
Sep.30, 2008

Today it might sound surprizing. But in about 10 years from now, this would be just a very common thing like a keylogger that we use today. Well, the geeks are developing again, and are planning to come up with some stuff that would record ways that you use your keyboard and your mouse and the way you browse through a website. This sure is going to take up a lot of space in log files on the servers, but if you do something funny, such as use a fake credit card on a porn site, the cops will come right to your house with handcuffs and sentence you to death without trial. The technology is being designed as a very valid evidence against people in court. Well, this is one good thing. If you run a porn site, or a merchant store for that matter, you can make sure that you get very little fake entries.

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cPanel is the best control panel for Linux

Filed Under: General
Sep.30, 2008

I must say, that out of my experience of running a web hosting copany and trying out several control panels by spending money for all that from my own pocket, I have come to the conclusion that linux is the best operating system for budget servers. If you run a bank then you might need solaris and stuff but for basic operations of putting up a decent website online, the best operating system that you could look for to operate the server is Linux. Windows sucks.

And unfortunately to make things easier on a web server you need something that is called a control panel that will maek all sorts of configurations for you. And without the control panel you will have to do all these settings manually and if you would be hositng a lot of websites on the server you would find yourself overloded with the work.

On linux, the best control panel is cpanel. Plesk sucks. There are a lot of open source alternatives, but none have the rich features of cpanel cpanel has got everyhting that you could ever think of.

I recently bought a vps for a small requirement from a provider, and to save about $5 a month, I got hooked up with plesk. And that pissed the hell out of me for the past few months. And a few days ago I moved that site to another vps that I had taken with cpanel, and the site is running excellently with just half of the ram. It appears that plesk was taking up most of the resources in the older server.

And right now after this, I find that I have a lot of spare time, that now I can go myself and print my Halloween invitations.

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Unlimited Domains, Hosting etc etc

Filed Under: General
Sep.04, 2008

I have my hosting with hostgator. Though I used to be the so called managing director of Indyahozting, I preferred my sites to be somewhere else when I moved out of the company, and so I chose hostgator apart from everyone else The name sounded cool, and I know that the site is in existence for the past 7 years. Well, the deal is I pay them $10 every month, and they give me a hosting account on which I can host unlimited domains and create unlimited databases and use upto 600 GB of space. Wow, what more do I need? I asked them whats the catch, and they told me that I cannot use more than 25% of the servers resources, and that they have a dual xeon server with 4 gb ram and stuff. They refuse to tell me how much hard disk they have got. They cant have more than 4×500 gb hard drives raided together. Thats only 2 TB. How are they sharing 600 gb to each client hosted on this server? Bullshit. I know that as I too have been selling hosting for some time now.

There is no such thing as Unlimited. If there was something called unlimited, I would take one of these $10 accounts and give hosting free for everyone with a limit of 10 or 20 mb per user to host their static html files only, and that way I would attract millions and billions of users and there would be no way that hostgator’s servers can tolerate the load of traffic though I would manage to keep the processor load within 25% as there would be no php or any other resource consuming sites. Everything would be plain html.

They would have a serious problem in their hands. What would they do? They would find a bullshit way to get me out of their servers, and I would challenge them that I am lying within the bounds of their TOS. The only thing that they can do to get me off their servers is to use the clause that states Host Gator reserves the right to fuck any client off their servers at their will and that I agree completely to that.

Dont get fooled by these offers. Think. Spend $1 per site a month and get hosting from the smaller providers, and you will get more resources per site.

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