Adam's Blog

For the past 2 years or so, I have been lucky enough to manage my own servers. Throughout this time, I have been able to use quite a variety of operating system’s including Debian (my favorite), Ubuntu, Gentoo, Red Had, FreeBSD and CentOS. Now, CentOS is the very first OS that I ran as a server, and I have to admit, It is not all that great to use like Debian is. However, I can tell you that it is the most secure and stable operating system I have used. Where it may sometimes be a big pain, It has to be one of the best Linux distros to run. I still may use Debian as a main OS, but I manage about 5 or 6 servers for a friend of mine and 3 of them have CentOS. I am also thinking about putting CentOS on my home server pretty soon.

About a week or 2 ago, I opened a new site called Geeky Tutorials. Just like the name says, it is a site that has tutorials about geeky like things. So far we have under 12 posts, and it is just me and my friend John writing for it now. We have an average of 30 unique visitors per day, which isn’t terrible for a site that just opened. As of now, I have written tutorials on mostly Linux stuff and my friend, John, wrote a tutorial on batch. Anyone can become an author, as long as you have knowledge of the subject your talking about. So, if you want to check it out, you can visit the site here.

I got some VPS space last week to free up some space on my one server and to host one of my websites. I got it from hosting that I have heard nothing but good things about, and that is SliceHost. For now, I only got the cheapest package which is fine for right now and it works great. Now, I have nothing bad to say about SliceHost. Their chat support is absolutely fantastic, their up time is great, they have stable servers and they have a very easy to use website and web interface. You also get full root access to your server and choice of what distro you want. I would highly recommend you at least try their service for one month if you are looking for a VPS host. If you are going to sign up, I would really be thankful if you used this referral:

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A friend of mine, Duffy, started a site where he puts up tutorials about anything tech related. he has tutorials ranging from Linux to making an Ethernet cable. You can really learn a lot from this site if you really want too. Anyone can register and share their knowledge in tech as well. I encourage you take a look at it, it is really worth viewing. You can get to it by going to www.tuts4tech.net.

Just over a month ago, I set up my home server again and I installed a Linux Distro I always had heard about and always wanted called Debian. I got Debian 5 just a few days after it was first released. I have been using it a lot and it has been running absolutely great. It is an easy Distro to use whether you have a small amount of use for it or a large amount of use for it. I will eventually blog about the software I use on my home server such as Lighttpd, MySQL 5, and PHP5. I would highly suggest this Distro if you are putting together your first Linux server. Of course, it’s Open Source.

For those of you like me, an IRC user, you are on a piece of software running on a server somewhere in the world. One of the most common of these pieces of IRC software, also known as IRCd’s, is called Unreal IRCd. Just about all of the networks I am on use this IRCd. I used to use it when I was running an IRC network and I pretty much know how to install it in my sleep. It is a very stable and reliable piece of software that I think everyone starting a network should use. It is very easy to set up and it is completely free. If you don’t get how to set it up there are many tutorials and even an IRC chat room on Unreal’s own IRC network that will be able to help you. So, what are you waiting for? Go install Unreal!