The blog is back

8 April 2008

Well, after a long while of doing nothing, I've finally decided to update this blog. For reasons unknown (laziness) I've pretty much neglected the thing for half a year.

So it happens that Godaddy were kind enough to remind me that my hosting package had expired, and that I needed to pay. Well, I didn't pay. However, as you can probably guess, I've moved the site to another host.

The host isn't only a host, but rather a VPS (virtual private server). It's pretty much weak, has only 64MB of RAM, but it's not like I have any traffic that would be affected by that.

The advantage however is that I have full root access, a dedicated IP, and a fairly generous bandwidth limitation. Considering all this, and the fact that it comes for 7$ a month, I was instantly sold.

(The company is VPSLink, by the way, and by far they were great.)

I've also installed mod_ssl on httpd, and made a self signed certificate. The "Use SSL" button above links to just that.

A self signed cert isn't much, but I don't have the resources or will to get anything more serious. Anyway, the thing still encrypts the pages, and makes sure no one intercepts them on the way to you. (Unless they're using a MITM attack, and that's what real CA certificates should protect you from).

All that said and done, I hope I'll find the drive to frequently write here.

Posted by: kGen | In category: Site news | Comments (1)

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