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: [...]

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 [...]

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 ; [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]