[ale] Hosting Services

Rett Addy gtrett at gmail.com
Tue May 5 16:01:45 EDT 2009


Thank you for all of you who have responded and emailed.  I will be going
through the information in the not too distant future.

Thank you very much,

Rett

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Hosting Services (Harold Bieber)
   2. DUH!! RE:  Help! Not getting java right on F10
      (Mills John M-NPHW64)
   3. Re: Hosting Services (Greg Freemyer)
   4. Re: Hosting Services (Brian Pitts)
   5. Re: Grub and auxiliary boot partition (Jeff Hubbs)
   6. OT: Seeking Mice (Brian Pitts)
   7. Re: OT: Seeking Mice (Sean C. McCord)


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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 13:30:51 -0400
From: Harold Bieber <harold.bieber at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ale] Hosting Services
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!" <ale at ale.org>
Message-ID:
	<e321c8820905011030i1f45d9d1qa2d10d4e88c268c8 at mail.gmail.com>
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Robert, I have been extremely happy with the service at Dreamhost. I have
been with them for over a year now. I think I bought a 3 year hosting
package for $100.00. In the time I have been with them they have only had
one major outage, it affected one of the servers I was on, there was a drive
controller failure. It was out for about 2 hours or so.. but they sent at
least 3 emails during that time with status updates. Servers are running
Debian if I recall correctly.

Good Luck!!
Harold


On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Robert Reese~ <ale at sixit.com> wrote:

> Hey gals and guys, I just found the NO BRAINER OF THE YEAR!!!
>
> Dreamhost: unlimited space, unlimited bandwidth, etc.
> http://www.dreamhost.com/
> <http://www.dreamhost.com/>
>
> ENTIRE YEAR: $9.24
>
>  From the website:
>
> "Save over $100 on one year of web hosting with unlimited disk space and
> bandwidth!"   " ...one-year hosting plan using the promotional code "777"
> and
> you'll get an entire year of web hosting (including a domain registration)
> for
> just $9.24! That's 92% off our normal pricing!"
>
> Oh, and a free domain registration to boot.  They also have a lot of
> integration
> with Google apparently.
>
> The Catch?  Strings?  Downside?  Bad News?
> It expires TODAY... 4/30/2009
>
> I just signed up another domain with them... a 365-day trial for <$10 with
> a
> domain name registration included?  Count me in!
>
> Cheers,
> Robert~
>
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 13:44:17 -0400
From: "Mills John M-NPHW64" <Jmills at motorola.com>
Subject: [ale] DUH!! RE:  Help! Not getting java right on F10
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!" <ale at ale.org>,
	"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!" <ale at ale.org>
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I went through a few more 'bootless' [in the Shakespearean sense] cycles
then brought up Firefox 'help'. I found it works better when I check "Enable
Java" in Edit->Preferences->Content. &8-P)
 <SIGH/>

Thanks, Scott.

 - Mills

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org on behalf of scott mcbrien
...

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Mills John M-NPHW64
<Jmills at motorola.com>wrote:

...
> How can I install and configure Sun's 'jre' so it will be my default Java
> runtime, and the default for applets downloaded by Firefox-3.0.8?
...

Mills,
You want to create a sym link from /usr/lib/firefox*/plugins to
/usr/java/jre1.6.0_13/plugins/nss/lib*java.so  (I might have the exact paths
incorrect, I'm doing this from memory, but they should be close)  You'll
need to kill all open firefox sessions for the new plugin to be loaded upon
next firefox exec.
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 13:57:34 -0400
From: Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ale] Hosting Services
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!" <ale at ale.org>
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On the other side, I signed up for there "backup user' service.

It an extra fee service.

They apparently only have one server for that service.

It died a day or two into my new service. Mar. 7.

http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/page/5/

Totally offline for 10 days or so.

It was Apr. 21, before they posted that they thought it was fully back in
shape.

http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2009/04/16/backup-service-update/

So a month and a half of weird operation for their backup server,
which is sold as a service to users like me that want to backup across
the Internet.

I'm still with them, but only because I have not taken time to figure
out where to move.

Greg

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Harold Bieber <harold.bieber at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Robert, I have been extremely happy with the service at Dreamhost. I have
> been with them for over a year now. I think I bought a 3 year hosting
> package for $100.00. In the time I have been with them they have only had
> one major outage, it affected one of the servers I was on, there was a
drive
> controller failure. It was out for about 2 hours or so.. but they sent at
> least 3 emails during that time with status updates. Servers are running
> Debian if I recall correctly.
>
> Good Luck!!
> Harold
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Robert Reese~ <ale at sixit.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hey gals and guys, I just found the NO BRAINER OF THE YEAR!!!
>>
>> Dreamhost: unlimited space, unlimited bandwidth, etc.
>> http://www.dreamhost.com/
>> <http://www.dreamhost.com/>
>>
>> ENTIRE YEAR: $9.24
>>
>> ?From the website:
>>
>> "Save over $100 on one year of web hosting with unlimited disk space and
>> bandwidth!" ? " ...one-year hosting plan using the promotional code "777"
>> and
>> you'll get an entire year of web hosting (including a domain
registration)
>> for
>> just $9.24! That's 92% off our normal pricing!"
>>
>> Oh, and a free domain registration to boot. ?They also have a lot of
>> integration
>> with Google apparently.
>>
>> The Catch? ?Strings? ?Downside? ?Bad News?
>> It expires TODAY... 4/30/2009
>>
>> I just signed up another domain with them... a 365-day trial for <$10
with
>> a
>> domain name registration included? ?Count me in!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Robert~
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Ale mailing list
>> Ale at ale.org
>> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>
>
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 14:29:25 -0400
From: Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com>
Subject: Re: [ale] Hosting Services
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!" <ale at ale.org>
Message-ID: <49FB3F85.6010703 at polibyte.com>
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Harold Bieber wrote:
> Robert, I have been extremely happy with the service at Dreamhost. I
> have been with them for over a year now. I think I bought a 3 year
> hosting package for $100.00. In the time I have been with them they have
> only had one major outage, it affected one of the servers I was on,
> there was a drive controller failure. It was out for about 2 hours or
> so.. but they sent at least 3 emails during that time with status
> updates. Servers are running Debian if I recall correctly.

I signed up for dreamhost yesterday. For $10 I thought why not, I've
been meaning to register another domain name anyway. At first I was
confused about what was my login to the web control panel and what was
my login to the server, but I figured it out. After I logged in to the
control panel I enabled ssh access. When I logged in via ssh I saw that
my server had an uptime of 45 minutes. Also, my home directory was
nonexistent! I made a change to my user in the control panel and my home
directory was created. I changed my document root using the web control
panel, created a database via the control panel, set up fastcgi by hand,
(they default to cgi), then installed drupal. In the middle of setting
up drupal, they changed my document root back to the default setting! I
changed it again and it's stayed put so far. When trying to edit my
crontab I keep receiving permission errors. Support was fast to respond
to my ticket about cron. My server had crashed and burned [0] and they
advised me to just wait until they put it back in working order. They've
rebooted it at least once more since then. I still can't set up cronjobs.

The server appears to have a quad-core E5405 processor and 16GB of RAM.
I think it's using an LSI raid controller as well as some network
filesystems. It's running Debian Etch. The kernel is
2.6.29-xeon-aufs2.29-grsec #1 SMP Wed Apr 29 17:30:56 PDT 2009 x86_64

[0] http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2009/04/30/batman-having-some-problems/

-- 
All the best,
Brian Pitts


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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 10:07:41 -0400
From: Jeff Hubbs <jeffrey.hubbs at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ale] Grub and auxiliary boot partition
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!" <ale at ale.org>
Message-ID: <49FB022D.2080604 at gmail.com>
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Jeff Lightner wrote:
> I can't imagine why anyone would prefer software RAID over hardware RAID
> (mirroring at least) on /boot.  
I didn't say I did.  I said I prefer not to rely on RAID [period] for /boot.
> For performance reasons alone it would
> be preferable 
I dunno - the 0.0378858 seconds it takes to read my kernel out of /boot 
is adequate.  Now, if it got to 0.04 seconds, I might really start to 
gripe. ;)
> and as posted by Greg it allows you to ignore dealing with
> grub because grub sees the RAID LUN not the individual disks.
>   
Non-issue.  /boot is basically a read-only entity to me; I don't even 
mount it unless it's to change kernels or modify grub.conf.

In this machine's case (8x2GHz Xeon cores), software RAID is faster.  
Furthermore, I've got one array that's a stripe set of seven mirror 
pairs that cross controllers, so I can actually lose a controller (as 
long as the failure mode doesn't trash the bus) and still have the array. 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jeff
> Hubbs
> Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:23 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> Subject: Re: [ale] Grub and auxiliary boot partition
>
> Greg -
>
> I didn't mention the 24 additional disk drives and three 3Ware 8-drive 
> controllers because they weren't germane to my question. :) 
>
> I prefer not to rely on RAID for /boot. 
>
> - Jeff
>
> Greg Freemyer wrote:
>   
>> Jeff,
>>
>> I use a 2-disk 3ware controller specifically for my server boot
>>     
> drives.
>   
>> Seems like a 2-disk controller is about $100 and it prevents you
>> worrying about grub issues.
>>
>> Greg
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Jeff Hubbs <jeffrey.hubbs at gmail.com>
>>     
> wrote:
>   
>>   
>>     
>>> I have a server with two disks that I use for booting and rooting -
>>>       
> sda and
>   
>>> sdb.  I partition them like this:
>>>
>>> |--sda1=/boot-----|--sda2 (type fd)------------------------|
>>>
>>> |--sdb1=/auxboot--|--sdb2 (type fd)------------------------|
>>>
>>> sdb1 and sdb2 are made into md0 in kernel RAID 1 and md0 is mounted
>>>       
> as /.
>   
>>> sda1 and sdb1 have the bootable flag set.  /auxboot holds the same
>>>       
> files as
>   
>>> /boot.
>>>
>>> I want to have things such that if sda is dead, grub can be told to
>>>       
> boot
>   
>>> entirely using just sdb.
>>>
>>> When I install grub, I envision these commands:
>>>
>>> grub> root (hd0,0)
>>>
>>> grub> setup (hd0)
>>> grub> root (hd1,0)
>>> grub> setup (hd1)
>>>
>>>
>>> Does that look like it will do what I want, acknowledging that the
>>>       
> settings
>   
>>> in grub.conf in /boot
>>> would come up and therefore would have to be changed by hand in the
>>>       
> grub
>   
>>> start menu before actually
>>>
>>> booting?
>>>
>>> If so, I expect I could do away with the human intervention by
>>>       
> putting sda
>   
>>> and sdb in the BIOS'
>>> boot list in that order, changing the grub.conf in /auxboot to use
>>>       
> sdb2 as
>   
>>> /, and then running the
>>>
>>> grub commands above.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>> - Jeff
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>   
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 23:08:13 -0400
From: Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com>
Subject: [ale] OT: Seeking Mice
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!" <ale at ale.org>,
	CHUGALUG Linux discussion list <UGALINUX at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
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Hi,

At Free IT Athens we have computers ready to go to a new home, but this
plan has gone awry. Why? We're out of mice!

If anyone has mice to donate, please contact freeitathens at gmail.com.
Both ps/2 and usb are useful.

In case we have to purchase some, can anyone recommend a source that can
provide cheap, reliable mice in bulk?

--
All the best,
Brian Pitts
Free IT Athens Staff Volunteer

Free IT Athens is a non-profit community advocate for free software and
open technology. Our goal is to provide access to information technology
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information, visit http://freeitathens.org




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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 01:11:39 -0400
From: "Sean C. McCord" <scmlist at cycoresys.com>
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Seeking Mice
To: ale at ale.org
Message-ID: <20090502051138.GA20079 at apt.cycoresys.com>
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On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 11:08:13PM -0400, Brian Pitts wrote:
>In case we have to purchase some, can anyone recommend a source that can
>provide cheap, reliable mice in bulk?

That depends on just how cheap you want them.  There are some really
nasty, cheap mice out there that can be had for a dollar or two.  I
can get decent Logitech mice from distributors in Atlanta for six or
seven dollars.  Personally, I can't tolerate a lousy mouse, so the
cheapest I ever sell is the AOpen/Logitech OEM, which I can usually
find between five and eight dollars a piece.

--
Sean C. McCord
CyCore Systems
scmlist at cycoresys.com


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