Conor Duffy's Blog

Possible New Server in January

Hi everyone.

I know I haven’t posted in a while, been really busy with college work, so figured I’d write something today, and Hurrah!! It’s good news :)

As you may have read in a previous post, I was shutting down my Dedicated server, as it was costing €70 per month to run it, which is quite a lot. Well, it’s still being shut down, but my hosting company OVH have just opened an Irish branch, which features my server for €40 a month, with a 1TB HDD instead of the existing €750

So, we’l be moving there in January hopefully, which leads me onto the next order of business. The first month will cost €210 euro, as the server has a €50 set-up fee, €40 for the month, and €150 for a Cloudmin 10-instance annual license.

Cloudmin, for the un-educated, is a derivitave of Virtualmin, designed for managing and running Virtual hosts. Since the current server has become a mess of config’s geared towards the main domain, I figure it would be better to use Xen to make virtual machines for each host, install Virtualmin in each, and cluster the lot. Well, until I read about Cloudmin, and figured it could handle all that for me, which means minimal time spent maintianing and configuring systems :)

Lastly, I will be password-protecting the proxy, access will be available for €5 euro for the first month, then €2 a month thereafter for access. Included with the access will be 1GB of space on TorrentFlux (a remote torrent downloader, similar to ImageShack’s Tor service), and a forum for users to communicate with each other. Hopefully I’ll be able to configure the password-protection and the forum to tie into the TorrentFlux database, which will make things easier to manage for all users (myself included)

Anyway, more on all this in January sometime, until then, toodles!!