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[fork].freebsd.cx Upgrades

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I’ve just upgraded all ports (i.e software) on fork.freebsd.cx and its associated jails (services.freebsd.cx and users.freebsd.cx).  Most people’s sites are associated with the latter, although the former affects mail.  If anything is broke, let me know.

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August 30th, 2008 at 7:40 am

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Hosting Update

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We’re now 95% live with the new hosting arrangement. Everything is sat on a not-so-shiny IBM x330 which is a dual 1.3GHz P3, 1GB of ECC RAM, 400GB of mirrored storage, and FreeBSD 6. I’ve migrated across pretty much all of the e-mail setup, some people’s websites, and of course my own personal stuff - which includes me using lighttpd instead of Apache httpd within my jail, and it’s a hell of a lot faster. The bandwidth and dedicated server performance helps matters as well though :)

Moving forward I’ll probably set up a mailing list so that people hosted on this new box can be easily notified of any work / outages, and I’ve been threatening to resurrect the old freebsd.cx website as I know you can import old PHPNuke sites into WordPress…

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July 26th, 2007 at 9:50 pm

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DNS Issues

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So the glue for most of the domains that I host (freebsd.cx and dischord.org mainly) has come unstuck (lolz) thanks to the IP addresses for both the primary and secondary authoritive nameservers for these domains being wrong. The IP for the primary changed on Sunday and while the secondary should have been be fine, the address that netdns.cx hold for ns2 is incorrect (don’t ask). Hence, no DNS.

I’ve got something working now - for dischord.org at least, freebsd.cx will be shagged for a while longer - so it should settle down a bit. I need to update the addresses for ns.freebsd.cx and ns2.freebsd.cx only netdns.cx have changed their website again, and my login details don’t work. It tries to mail a new password to my nick(at)freebsd.cx account but as there’s no DNS for that domain it’s something of a chicken and egg situation. Of course, netdns’s helpdesk service is shit and might take up to a week to respond :(

* UPDATE

I ended up calling netdns.cx (out in Christmas Island) at 3am on Thursday morning and asking if they could sort this out. They did, and so freebsd.cx now has authoritive nameservers again.

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June 19th, 2007 at 12:51 pm

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Back, sort of…

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So I imported all the old blog entries from Movable Type into this Wordpress installation, mucked about with some pre-made themes as I haven’t been bothered to sort a brand new one out (more on that in a sec), and here we are. Now I’ll just have to start writing some stuff again.

So yeah, a redesign. Boothy has done a new design which is ace, but I don’t know if I can be fucked figuring out yet another theme syntax for getting it to play nicely with Wordpress. So for now I’m using a theme developed by someone else (with some minor customisations) called ‘Hemingway‘ which isn’t too far from what I wanted anyway.

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March 27th, 2006 at 2:46 pm

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