Site Details3/34/02Some site statistics are here. 1/6/02There is now a tutorial on making Ruby scripts used to maintain a WEB site like this one. 12/9/01The site has had visitors with 21,949 unique ip addresses. and is now averaging over 3000 page hits per week. 3/18/01Since 9/16 when I started keeping log files, the site activity has gone from about 100 page hits per week to over 1300. A significant portion of these are repeat viewers. 3/4/01Site up and down 5 times due to stormy weather related power outages this weekend. Installed a UPS during the last power hit. Uptime to this point was about 17 days. Wrote scripts to eliminate the last of the database support. The hits using Java servlets are beginning to decline as search engines re-query the site and cache the html versions of pages. There are still people who have book marked the servlet pages. 2/15/01I was screwing around with the DMA settings for the disk drive driver and managed to shut down the server tonight. It took nearly 10 minutes to bring back up. The command: hdparm -d1 -X34 /dev/hda was not a good idea. Uptime before this screw up was 72 days. 1/28/01Uptime: 8:26am up 54 days, 8:46, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 I've been having a problem with MySql not closing sockets, they hang around like zombies and steadily increase in number. I would finally restart the MySql deamon to kill them. I upgraded to MySql 3.23.32 Ver 11.12 using the latest glibc-2.2-12 from RedHat this week. This version has recently been declared as 'stable' and seems to have solved the problem with open sockets. PhotographsThe phototgraphs have come from 3 sources.
All photos were processed using PhotoShop running on Windows 2000. PhotoShop and Microsoft Money are the primary reasons I'm using any Windows software. The rest of the time, it is all Linux. Hardware/SoftwareThis site is hosted on an inexpensive ($500) eMachines PC running RedHat Linux. The DSL connection allows only 128K upload, so it can not stand much traffic. Some of the 912 data is stored in a MySQL database - hence the site supports data driven page content. I maintain this information using HTML forms based entry. I wrote the Java that ties it together. Here are some of the hardware and software used for the site:
SecurityInternet access to the machine is screwed down pretty tight to reduce the number of successful hacker attacks. There was one nearly successful attack using a known ftp buffer overrun exploit. It occurred during a two week period of time that the ftp port was available for my brother to copy some files. It was solved by a combination of upgrades to ftp and removing access to ftp. We track and upgrade all OS security fixes. -- Dave Hillman |
