Doug's Linux Blog

Well, after encountering a show-stopper issue at eNetSouth, this website is on the road again. And it's landed at Server Dragon.

I signed up for a VMWare VPS at eNetSouth in late January, 2011. Here's my thoughts after three months.

Update: Service cancelled June 21, 2011. In late May this VPS encountered technical problems (it would stall on outdoing data transfer; a reboot would temporarily fix it, then the issue would re-occur in 12-24 hours). I spent about 16 hours troubleshooting and rebuilding within the VPS, to no avail. eNetSouth tech support provided no help.

Here's an overview of planned features for an initial version of BashPanel.

If the idea of a command-line control panel for your Linux webserver interests you, read on....

Back in February I moved this site to a KVM VPS provided by Garman Online. Now we've again -- to a VMWare server provided by eNetSouth.

Nginx has a status module that provides statistics on connections and requests. This shell script reads and reformats those stats and adds a few useful bits of information.

When you post a comment on a Kukkaisvoima blog, there's a security question like, "What's 5 + 2?" The question and answer are coded in the blog's settings. Here's how I change it dynamically.

This is a further development of the OpenVZ server status script introduced in a previous post. Version 2 adds support for non-OpenVZ servers, such as Xen, KVM, VMWare and dedicated boxes.

Just a quick note to say the blog has been updated to Kukkaisvoima 10 and it's now served by nginx on the frontend.

Given two data backup servers of known uptime, what are the odds of one being available when you really need it?

A brief look at one method of processing HTTP GET data with a Bash CGI script.