Archive for November 2007

Secure GMail Shortcut (Plus Google Reader)

These are just shorter urls to access GMail and Google Reader securely.
Secure GMail:
http://g.xrho.com/ => https://mail.google.com/mail/
Secure Hosted GMail (edit domain.tld with your domain):
http://g.xrho.com/domain.tld => https://mail.google.com/a/domain.tld/
Secure GMail HTML Only:
http://h.g.xrho.com/ => https://mail.google.com/mail/h/
Secure Hosted GMail HTML Only (edit domain.tld with your domain):
http://h.g.xrho.com/domain.tld => https://mail.google.com/a/domain.tld/h/
Secure Google Reader:
http://r.g.xrho.com/ => https://www.google.com/reader/view/

Current Server Stats

Link 1 VPS from vpslink.com. $7.95 a month.
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 4400 (2.0 GHz) (not sure what percentage I get)
Memory: 64 MB RAM (no swap, should've gotten Xen)
OS: Ubuntu 7.10
Server: lighttpd w/ PHP via fastcgi
DB: MySQL 5
Hard Drive Space: 2.5 G (1.4G – 57% used)
Avg load avg: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00
Avg MemFree: 16768 kB
Current access.log [...]

Netfirms to Me. You Thought You Could Cancel Your Service?

I've been using VPSLink since a little after I posted this. Have yet to have a single problem with them
Here's a screenshot of the account page on Netfirms:

Which one do you think will allow you to turn auto-renew off?
Product Renewal? Nope. I can renew it early if I feel so obliged.
Billing Profile? Think again. I [...]

Exposing PHP is a Security Risk

In php.ini, there is this:
; Misc
;
; Decides whether PHP may expose the fact that it is installed on the server
; (e.g. by adding its signature to the Web server header). It is no security
; threat in any way, but it makes it possible to determine whether you use PHP
; on your server or not.
expose_php [...]

Old Server Stats

Since I moved my most trafficked sites to this server, I've decided to post stats about my last server.
These were all generated from awstats starting in June 2007.
Summary:
Visits: 44232
Pages: 259259
Hits: 664952
Bandwidth: 10.27 GB
Day of Week:

Day
Pages
Hits
Bandwidth

Mon
842.61
2222.57
31.52 MB

Tue
806.11
2184.85
28.89 MB

Wed
839.24
2143.33
30.84 MB

Thu
827.17
2133.07
33.32 MB

Fri
831.13
2045.18
35.90 MB

Sat
779.13
1906.13
29.03 MB

Sun
762.24
1948.62
41.35 MB

Bots:

96 different robots*
Hits
Bandwidth
Last visit

Googlebot
101512+910
2.71 GB
15 Nov 2007 – 18:16

Unknown robot (identified by 'robot')
31241+1371
597.93 [...]

Switching Servers

I should be doing really soon now, like tonight, though it might take till tomorrow or so, so I might be going away for a bit, and hopefully for just a bit, possibly more though, because I'm not sure what this is going to entail. I know what I'm doing, just not what I'm doing [...]