Posts Tagged server
All Settled In
I’m running from my new VPS now. It has a healthy 1GB RAM (much better than the 384 I used to have!). And everything seems to be running smoothly.
I did have possibly the most unusual method of moving my blog over – in that I zipped up the directory, moved it over to the new VPS, and imported the database, same for the apache2 settings. Luckily, 98% of it went without a hitch! A few issues with virtual hosts and mod_rewrite, but that’s all.
I now have a constant IRC presence, because I’m no longer limited by the VPS provider on what I can and can’t use (gotta love having a friend with a server!). And yes – it’s running Ubuntu 8.04 Server 
Slicehost
Now, I’m sure a great many of you have at least looked into getting dedicated web hosting or VPS Servers at some point or another, I know I have! The real killer on it for me, was partly cost, and partly due to the fact that I would be limited as to what was on there, as I couldn’t install anything on the server – no company would give you root access for obvious reasons.
Well I found out that’s not quite true! Slicehost give you FULL root access. How or why may be what you’re thinking…well it’s because you actually have a virtual machine on one of their servers. What’s even better is that they’re not slow servers either!
I personally have a 256 Slice as I don’t really need a massively powerful server. I’ll let you read the other types of slices on their website, but the 256 Slice gives me:
- 256MB RAM
- 10GB Hard Drive Space
- 100GB Bandwidth
I personally think it’s a brilliant idea, and it costs me $20 per month (now as I’m in the UK that works out to about £11.50). Some people may have noticed that I’m on IRC 24/7 now too…screen and irssi work great for that I should also point out that all the servers you can install are Linux servers, they offer plenty (I noticed Gentoo 2007.0 got updated to 2008.0 recently) – mine runs…Ubuntu of course 
From my (albeit brief) experience, I’d highly recommend Slicehost to anybody looking for hosting of any sort next time you’re in the market for it.
Printer Sharing With Ubuntu Server
I’ve been trying for at least a week to get this working (with an Epson Stylus DX4200), and it’s just not happened…until now!!!
Originally I tried (I don’t know why, so don’t ask) to share the printer over the samba share that I currently have in place on the network, as it seemed a good idea…at the time, I know no that it’s something that should never be attempted (currently).
After many tedious tweakings of many various things, and still no printing across the network. I finally stumbled across this thread on the forums which I followed, and happily…it worked!!! I now have printing across the network. I checked by printing a test page from my laptop (Ubuntu) and then an XP desktop downstairs.
After all that effort of trying to share the printer via samba, it turns out that I managed to share it using ipp – which even Windows supports (though not many people seem to know about that). I think that the main issue I was having is that searching for how to share a printer via Ubuntu gave GUI options suited to the desktop, and not Ubuntu Server – which is CLI only, so I had to edit
Anyway – it works now, I’m happy – and the rest of the family is happy too, and it’s 10x more convenient than before.
