geek.reborn - my life ramblings

So on Friday Jeremy brought over his old server to school and we spent the day setting it up as a replacement for Prometheus. I just wanted to post and update with the status of how everything is going. So far its fully installed (ubuntu-server-custom) and serving as a Squid proxy (with SandvineFscker), SSH tunnel, PyAIM-t/Jabber server, and a media streaming server. Some juicy information about it:

256MB x 4 ECC DIMM (for a total of 1GB RAM)
Pentium III (Coppermine), 996 MHz x 2 (yeah baby!)
/dev/hda Maxtor 91000D8 (IDE 10GB)
/dev/sda SEAGATE ST136403LW (SCSI 40GB)
60GB IDE coming soon!
Dell 3C905B Fast Etherlink XL 10/100 (will soon be sticking in a gigabit card)

Specs may seem horrible for gamers, but for a server its GREAT! Things compile lightning fast on it, encryption/decryption algorithms take mere seconds (compared with 30 seconds it took on PrometheusV1)…Basically, Faldane / PrometheusV2 OWNZ!

Its using two hostnames until I get everything remapped from Prometheus to Faldane… faldane.ath.cx / prometheus.rondutt.com

The second full week of college will be ending tomorrow, and to be honest, it has been hell! First week was pretty awesome as the thrill of coming back to school kept my awake and alert, but now that the thrill has worn off and reality has settled in, life sucks! Getting up every morning at 6 a.m., getting to class, listening to Greg lecture for hours while trying to keep my eyes open, lunch, back to listening to Greg lecture…I’m seriously not ready for this, at least not yet. By 10 a.m. my body and mind just wants to throw in the towel and collapse on the floor. I try to get as much sleep as possible (doing the 8 hours a day thing, 10 hours, etc) but I feel extremely tired at all times. I guess I just have to give myself more time to adjust to this new schedule…Until I do, I’m gonna enjoy the upcoming weekend as muuuuch as I can Lab day tomorrow and Jeremy is gonna bring “the thing” (un-named as of yet), a new replacement for Prometheus THANK YOU JEREMY!! <3<3<3 lulz

UPDATE: The new server is now named Faldane

UPDATE: Added “index.php” to the no-cache field so the main portion of the site won’t be cached (thus keeping my plugin working), but the rest of the site (excluding deskcam as well) will be cached. I’m gonna try to find and fix the bug causing instant expiration of cached content with a expire value lower than 30000 seconds.

UPDATE 2: Decided to scrap WP-Cache for the time being…IMO not worth it since I run so many things that are updating live content. I don’t have any plans on getting a MAJOR boost of traffic anytime soon, that and my server is pretty powerful so it will handle the load, albeit a little slowly.

Saw a Digg article on how sucky Wordpress is when it gets “dugg,” one of a small handful of fixes include wp-cache. WP-Cache creates a cache (duh) of all pages you specify–by default all site content–and instead of executing the php code each time a visitor visits your site, it simply gives the visitor the cached content. This speeds up WP a TON on a Windows server. The only downside of this is my “Now listening to:” module goes kaput If I set the cache to expire every 180 seconds (3 minutes), the pages instantly expire (bug most likely). If I set it to 30000, it doesn’t expire; But 30000 seconds = 500 minutes/8.3 hours. That means the website content updates once EVERY 8 HOURS! It sucks » Continue Reading…