:wq - blog » lighttpd http://writequit.org/blog Tu fui, ego eris Mon, 22 Dec 2014 14:54:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.5 Free shell account anyone? http://writequit.org/blog/2007/10/31/free-shell-account-anyone/ http://writequit.org/blog/2007/10/31/free-shell-account-anyone/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:55:57 +0000 http://writequit.org/blog/?p=81 For a time, I’m offering a free shell account to anyone who would like one on http://navi.eight7.org. Email me if you would like an account.

Details:

  • FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE
  • UltraSPARC IIe 650 Mhz processor (speeeeedy :P)
  • 1GB of RAM
  • SSH login from anywhere that can get to navi.eight7.org:22
  • lighttpd w/fastcgi & SSL for web serving
  • Ajaxterm to access console login from http
  • 78%+ uptime! (I jest, more uptime than that)

Like I said, if you’re interested, email me, I’m curious to know what you would do with it also :)

[UPDATE]: Due to the amount of requests I am receiving about this software, I would prefer if you were not going to use the account to host psybnc or eggdrop, I would prefer you use the account for something a bit more constructive :)

[UPDATE 2]: Someone with an account was rude enough to attempt to install backdoor software, this offer is no longer in effect for the time being.

]]> http://writequit.org/blog/2007/10/31/free-shell-account-anyone/feed/ 14 An update on the Sun Blade 150 http://writequit.org/blog/2007/10/15/an-update-on-the-sun-blade-150/ http://writequit.org/blog/2007/10/15/an-update-on-the-sun-blade-150/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:42:48 +0000 http://writequit.org/blog/?p=77 Well, I finally got around to finishing doing all the installs and setup on the Blade 150 I had laying around. In the end, since it only had 1gb of RAM and only 1 600 Mhz UltraSPARC II processor, I decided to go with FreeBSD instead of Solaris.

Initially, Solaris worked great serving up a webpage, however, the fact that I did a whole install and the fact that solaris is not exactly speedy on older hardware made working with it a little painful. If unattended, the next time I accessed the machine it would take a few seconds to spin up before allowing a login or serving a webpage. The fact that I left mostly all of the daemons running didn’t help. Yea, I know I could have disabled them all, I just like started clean rather than having to clean up.

Enter FreeBSD. I decided to stay away from Linux also, short of a Gentoo install (which would be painfully slow to compile everything), it’s an extremely easy way to get a minimal install with the smallest amount of effort. That and I enjoy using different things, time to brush up on the BSD knowledge since it’s been a couple of years since I’ve used it. Anyhow, now the machine is running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE with a pretty vanilla install. I set up Lighttpd, MySQL, PHP for a web service so I can teach Delilah PHP one of these days. I also set up ajaxterm so I can access a command-line from places where SSH is blocked completely *cough*work*cough* in the event of an emergency.

Overall, I’m liking it more than Solaris, it’s certainly a lot more snappy and much easier to get all the things I want using ports than trying to mess with doing a build from source on Solaris.

You can check out my extremely weaksauce main page here:

http://navi.eight7.org

Anyone have any suggestions for what else I should use it for? Let me know in the comments!

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