Re: Where to rent the best dedicated servers?
Excellent choice... But so far it looks like I'll be going for http://www.m5hosting.com. "Small is the new big", might wanna Google that. Besides, they look so simple! Kyrre - Original Message - From: Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 4:28 am Subject: Re: Where to rent the best dedicated servers? To: Kyrre Nygerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], misc@openbsd.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In response to "Kyrre Nygerd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Sorry, I really don't know where else to ask. > > > > I've been using Staminus for a while now and I've had it with > the downtime. > > > > Basically I want a place to host my Ruby on Rails / Git > projects, an IRC server as well as an internet radio channel. > > > > Simple website / control panel design is ofcourse a plus. None > of that cpanel bullshit though, I prefer to meddle around with > simple text files the way it's meant to be done. > > > > So, layeredtech.com? rackspace.com? > > pair.com ? > > -- > Bill Moran > http://www.potentialtech.com > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Where to rent the best dedicated servers?
Sorry, I really don't know where else to ask. I've been using Staminus for a while now and I've had it with the downtime. Basically I want a place to host my Ruby on Rails / Git projects, an IRC server as well as an internet radio channel. Simple website / control panel design is ofcourse a plus. None of that cpanel bullshit though, I prefer to meddle around with simple text files the way it's meant to be done. So, layeredtech.com? rackspace.com? And is there a place that reviews dedicated server providers? Thanks, Kyrre
Re: Where to rent the best dedicated servers?
hehe i guess everything that glitter ain't gold... i'm down to two choices -- mediatemple.net and m5hosting.com... maybe joyent.com damn, it's so hard to make a choice... kyrre - Original Message - From: Gilles Chehade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 7:57 am Subject: Re: Where to rent the best dedicated servers? To: Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Kyrre Nyg?rd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], misc@openbsd.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 02:44:46PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > > In response to "Kyrre Nygerd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Sorry, I really don't know where else to ask. > > > > > > I've been using Staminus for a while now and I've had it > with the downtime. > > > > > > Basically I want a place to host my Ruby on Rails / Git > projects, an IRC > > server as well as an internet radio channel. > > > > > > Simple website / control panel design is ofcourse a plus. > None of that > > cpanel bullshit though, I prefer to meddle around with simple > text files the > > way it's meant to be done. > > > > > > So, layeredtech.com? rackspace.com? > > > > pair.com ? > > > > If asked a couple weeks ago I would have suggested layeredtech, > but I'd tend > to discourage it now as I ran into a succession of issues that > they took too > many time to fix (ip addresses not routed to my box, almost 72h > of downtime) > > Actually, if you aren't running a very critical service that you > rely on, it > is a pretty good service. It's just that when they fuck up, they > fuck up big > time :) > > Gilles > > -- > Gilles Chehade
The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!
Hello! I've long wondered where this error message comes from: "hostname nor servname provided, or not known" So I grepped my FreeBSD source code and found out it actually belongs to BIND9. It has to be the worst written error message in history. Any chance you can change it? Perhaps to something like: "Address unknown, or not provided." To avoid such mistakes in the future, I would recommend reading: http://www.goodcopywriting.com With that being said, thank you for such wonderful nameserver software! Thank you, Kyrre
Code beautifiers, anyone?
Hello people, I'm looking for the best ways to create a line of code beautification (reformatting) scripts -- one for C, one for Ruby, one for Bash and one for web development languages like XHTML, XML, CSS, PHP and Ajax. Whether as frontline warriors or household maids, they would ensure proper indentation, linebreaks, spaces, tabs and so forth. Can anybody help me? My studies of architectural science has taught me to pay extreme care to the correction of details, and I now wish to apply these teachings to all my code. I find myself always reformatting whatever my associates give me. Not that they're bad programmers, they just care more about the code itself rather than its structure, and I dare not argue with that. When their code is messy, however, my heart feels messy and I can't get any sleep. I wish to be in full control of my code beautifiers. That is, I wish to have them as simple and meaningful as possible. Give me an easy Bash over a complex Ruby any day. There's a lot of messed up tools out there. Companies with flashy websites just doing this for the money. So apart from the bullshit, I've managed to spot out the Ruby Beautifier and GNU Indent as two worthy code beautifiers. However I get the feeling they are more complex than they ought to be, and if less is more, my search will have to continue. All the best, Kyrre
A webhosting script?
Hello! Does anybody run a webhosting business, where they've written a simple Bash script to add new users and set up their domains in BIND, virtual hosts in Apache, MySQL databases and so on all in one go? I am looking for inspiration for my own script. Thank you! I truly wish to keep it real and avoid solutions like cPanel or Webmin. All the best, Kyrre
Re: Code beautifiers, anyone?
At 03:24 25.08.2006, Nick Holland wrote: Yeah. Use vi or emacs. :) The OpenBSD developers spend a lot of time making code fit what they call "KNF" -- Kernel Normal Form, documented in style(7) They do it carefully by hand, not using automatic tools. Why? To get EYES ON THE CODE. Go look at the commit logs, they often end up catching errors doing this. Run your "ugly" code through an automatic beautifier, you end up with ugly code that now looks pretty...every bug remains, and your knowledge of what is in there doesn't improve. Sure, you might be able to read it better LATER, but the point is, you didn't read it NOW. If you don't, the bad guys may... Even though I'm not a coder, this technique helps me on the FAQ, as well. Take a chunk, "normalize" it, and then go "Eww. We can do better". :) Nick. Man, I don't know how to thank you enough for showing me the normal form! I had no idea a standard for this existed, or how to create one myself, but now I surely do and it's all thanks to you! All the best, Kyrre
Re: Code beautifiers, anyone?
For those who are interested, you can check out the response I also got from the FreeBSD mailinglist: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-August/subject.html#129680 All the best, Kyrre
Re: A webhosting script?
At 16:09 25.08.2006, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2006/08/25 15:14, Kyrre Nygerd wrote: > Does anybody run a webhosting business, where they've written > a simple Bash script to add new users and set up their domains in BIND, > virtual hosts in Apache, MySQL databases and so on all in one go? > > I truly wish to keep it real and avoid solutions like cPanel or Webmin. I'd like to cast a recommendation for doing this in some language other than Bourne-shell. From the question I guess you might not know another language - if so, this is a great task to serve as a learning exercise, and if you have something you want to code, it's surprisingly quick to pick up enough to get started. Of course it can be done in sh, but having seen the result of this type of system developed by multiple people over a period of time in an ISP environment, it can soon become ugly and hard-to-maintain. One particular problem with sh is that database-integration will be ugly enough that you likely won't want to do it, which would be a shame for a provisioning system as it avoids all manner of hacks to get the information transferred from billing/ordering systems. I'll deliberately avoid suggesting a particular language since I don't fancy ignoring another thread on that - don't spend too much time on the choice: pick one (maybe look at the code format of other programs written in it and see if you can understand it quickly), and get stuck into writing the code. Thank you man, this is surely some good info. But Bash is my only option, unless I score an example from the Ruby mailing list. I know this is an excellent opportunity to start learning something new. I just bought Programming Ruby, 2nd edition :) And I now have an aim for what I want to do with the language which should make it easier to put my heart into it. Feel free to show me examples if you have any though. Take care man, Kyrre
Broken partition table
Hello! My partition table is messed up. I have a 150 gigabyte S-ATA hard drive, with a single NTFS partition running Windows XP. I've been running gpart /dev/ad0 from FreeSBIE for the last 14 hours now and it's not saying anything. I just want to get my data back. I don't care if I have to reinstall everything. How it all came about is a long story. I ran a second hard disk drive, with OpenBSD, and GRUB so it could do my dual booting. But I needed the space, so I formatted it to NTFS from Windows XP. That's it really, after that, it wouldn't boot. Couldn't load NTLDR. That's when I tried a lot of different things. boot0cfg, fixmbr and fixboot. I even managed changing its system ID type to FAT using fdisk -- I wasn't thinking clearly -- I was in deep shock. I have also tried gpart from Knoppix, but all its guesses came out as zero. I've also tried running gpart from Insert, another Linux distribution, but it totally freaked out about some I/O stuff. Linux uses SCSI drivers for S-ATA though. Is my only choice now to keep running gpart, even if it will run forever? All suggestions welcome, please! Best regards, Kyrre
