After a year of using a VPS and having intermittent network issues, primarily with DNS resolution and packet loss. I have moved all my sites to a new server from Serverloft. Until now my sites have either been hosted in a shared hosting environment or on a VPS. Currently the site is running on a dedicated server with a quad-core Xeon and 4GB of RAM, network connectivity is provided through a 100Mbps switch port. This is a vast improvement over the previous server.
I look forward to providing more content on this site and resuming some web development projects that I had planned, now that there is a proper environment for these projects.
I am working on a few new features for my site. One of which will be tying a wiki into my current WordPress installation. I am looking forward to being able to distribute some of the scripts that I rely on daily with the rest of the community, and a wiki will be the perfect way to do this. Another project that I would like to get underway is a photo gallery. I am contemplating various ways of doing this, currently I am looking towards tying into Flickr (possibly by making use of their API).
In other news I am changing the overall focus of this blog. At the end of 2009 I took a new position as a Systems Administrator working in the public sector. This has reignited my passion of technology and I look forward to sharing some the things I encounter with anyone that care to read this blog.
Today I have to say goodbye to trusty sidekick, my Asus Z7100 series laptop. After three long years of being tortured daily it finally died, in a blaze of glory. Apparently while using my hard drive adapter to backup some hard drives the adapter’s relay for the power supply shorted and put 12 volts DC straight through the USB ports on my laptop.
A tragic way for any piece of electronics to go, howver I’m just glad it wasn’t a customers laptop.
The best part is I’ve been in need of an upgrade anyways, so the office is just going to have to pay up.