robertalks.com » robertalks.com http://blog.robertalks.com here I talk Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:30:19 +0000 en hourly 1 New theme, new logo, new server, new setup…http://blog.robertalks.com/index.php/2009/10/27/new-theme-new-logo-new-server-new-setup/ http://blog.robertalks.com/index.php/2009/10/27/new-theme-new-logo-new-server-new-setup/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:53:22 +0000 robert http://blog.robertalks.com/?p=702 As some of you may have notice, my blog have change in every way possible. There is a new theme, new logo, new server and web server setup. Now when it comes to the new setup, I am talking about lighttpd with php-cgi. I’ve been testing this option for a bit and seemed the right one to go with. Lighttpd seems to work quite fine and the speed it’s really good, but there are some issues, it’s quite complicated to configure lighttpd. I mean, the style of configuration is a bit odd, but in general if you worked some time with web servers, you will get it, anyway I did.

The new theme, again is also new and it’s called Mystique and seems a very good option at the moment. It uses jQuery, making the theme and in general the blog look and feel nicer. When it comes to the logo, you will notice a mix between “Robin’s logo” (Batman’s right hand) and a normal text, all done in Adobe Photoshop.

Because change was need it, not just for the looks, but also for the speed of the blog, the blog was moved to a more powerful server, which seems to have a bit of more kick in it and handles the requests faster and maybe even better.

The next logical move, would be to switch from the current MySQL server, which is 5.0.x to 5.1.x which suppose to be the production version and I also believe it would work better too. I’m not sure when I will move to the newer MySQL version, but today or tomorrow I will try to build it. This might mean the blog will be down until I will be able to upgrade also the database from the old version to the newer one.

Anywho, I hope that all of you, who do read this blog, or find useful thing in the blog, will find this new updates much more interesting and pleasant. Also today or tomorrow I will release the new kernel packages 2.6.31.5-firebird, which are based on kernel 2.6.31.5.

So tune in tomorrow and check and test the new kernel. Cheers!

]]> http://blog.robertalks.com/index.php/2009/10/27/new-theme-new-logo-new-server-new-setup/feed/ 0 robertalks.com major move from Canada to US.http://blog.robertalks.com/index.php/2009/02/18/robertalkscom-major-move-from-canada-to-us/ http://blog.robertalks.com/index.php/2009/02/18/robertalkscom-major-move-from-canada-to-us/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:55:24 +0000 robert http://blog.robertalks.com/?p=223 As of today I have move the website, domain and blog to a new server. I had too many problems with the dedicated server in Canada, so I decided to get a small VPS only for robertalks.com. I’m using the same OS, just one system is real and the other one is virtual. I have pick a Xen based VPS (virtual private server), because it gives me more access to the system. Now the new VPS is not really strong, has just 256MB of RAM with 10GB of disk space and it runs CentOS 5.2, but its quite OK for my website and blog… I hope. :)

Now when it comes to the move, I did this due to too many network outages on the dedicated server from Canada. The dedicated server works super well, fast and stable, but the network connection from this company is really poor and unstable. I don’t really like this and I need something more stable and with a much better uptime… hopefully the VPS will have the network uptime and stability even if the performance and resources are much lower, this shouldn’t affect too much the overall functionality and speed of the website and blog.

Also if interested the new server is hosted by vpslink.com and seems like this guys have a better environment and overall setup of their infrastructure. I do hope I did the right choice, I guess I will see in the next couple of weeks or months.

Well I’ll be monitoring the new server and hopefully the results will be good. If you have some issue with accessing the website or blog just drop me a note or something… I need some feedback regarding the move and only those who access my website and blog can give me that.

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