Cool. 
I love reading about Linux being deployed in the business sector!! If you don’t mind me asking, what distros are you running on your 300 Linux boxes, jesus? Just curious.
I’m sure a weirdo like him would be rocking Debian or something.
It’s a pretty diverse mix not sure on all the distro’s that run but theres a few slackware servers, debian, redhat enterprise, centos etc. All of the new virtual servers will be running centos.
Eso:
Yes actually I do run debian on my personal servers but I dont see how that makes me weird 
Thanks for the reply, jesus. I haven’t tried RHEL, Centos, but, I know they’re rock-solid, stable. At home my main work station is Slackware.
Eso: I also run Debian Etch on two Linux boxes at home. Etch is a very stable, reliable distro. apt-get rocks and is possibly the best package management system out there. I didn’t like Debian sarge that much, and some of the earlier Etch betas were a bit flakey. But, Etch beta 3 is gold, everything works.
Well I’ve had about enuff… one of my new ‘perfect setup’ mail servers had a harddrive failure last night after being up only five weeks or so. So when I pulled the bad drive from the RAID, it wouldn’t even boot. Booted with an Ubuntu CD and the other drive doesn’t even show…
So I used the backup to the second server and discovered it was only the SQL backup. The guy who was supposed to do that part never backed the /home/vmail directory like I asked for…
Just love the committment level of 22 year old techies. Got my paycheck, now I’m off to skateboard f.o.a.d.
Yea, rock solid until you throw a virtualization layer in there 
Actually its really not that bad until oru customers throw 1k domains on our cheapest Virtual server and complain about it being slow.
Has senior management considered upgrading the cheap Virtual server to accomodate the 1 k domains?
No 
we are a wholesale hosting provider and do not host the actual domains themselves. We provide the servers to resellers who choose to host 1000 domains on the cheapest server possible.
We offer more powerful servers including load balanced solutions but in general the customers are selling $1.00 hosting and dont want to pay big bucks because it will hurt their bottom line.
Cool. Interesting stuff. Thanks for the reply.
How can you HAVE a bottom line selling hosting for $1?
that is the funny thing, we used to do support for surfspeedy.com and now we don’t because they did this to there customers. TONS ANDTONS of this going on and on. It was annoying. It’s hard to tell the moron that he has over sold his hosting plan to 35-60 customers all on one virutal server and he always wonderd why his virtual server always crahsed. The drone was always emailing sys admin stating that this virtual server taking up way to much server power. So off it goes and he would always call. We had to finally tell him YOUR DUMB your over selling buy another dedicated server don’t be so cheap your reseling and making TONS of money don’t be cheap.
You dont thats why they dont upgrade or pay for backups, or do their own backups. That way when a hard drive dies they can blame us for not backing up their data for free.
So I mentioned how the guy didn’t finish the job on our mailserver, part of which was a script that automatically created the user mailbox when you enter a user. So when I fired the backup server up I had to send a bulk e-mail from an address on localhost to automatically create /home/vmail/domain/useraccount files.
Here’s a few choice responses when the create-mailbox letter was from postmaster and said “The mail is now running on a backup server after a hard drive failure at 11:00 pm Friday”:
and what does that mean?
does this mean its running slower than normal ?
I don’t have a clue what this is and I am just checking to be sure this is from you and not some scam.
“Linda” did not get this so that is what makes me wonder why I did.
These ppl are just fucking stunned. No wonder they’re whining about how much spam they get, they probably reply ‘no I don’t want any Viagra at this time’ to every spam and verify their address before they even think. Makes me think of the moron kids on the CoffeeCrisp commercial. If I were to mention the sky is blue, they’d say ‘what does that mean?’ and 'just cuz you say it doesn’t make it true…"
I’ve got a better one, some customer was complaining that their java application reported they had an incorrect amount of ram… 1GB rather than the allocated 256MB. This is normal to see because 1GB is the hard limit where as 256 is the soft limit. So she complains and complains and I say ok I will set your hard and soft limit to 256 Megs. When you hit the limit you may exeperience issues such as software crashes or your environment may stop.
Well surprise surprise her environment goes down 4x/day and she calls to complain to me that her server is unstable and ignores the fact I pointed this out to her previously. So after her bitching how we should have told her I reset her limits to the original settings 
hey,
came across this post on my internet travels. i spend LOTS of time online, as you probably know, 'cuz i’m the lady who you’re referring to in your post.
just wanted to clarify a couple of points. the wireless service is setup by maxit, so it’s not free to the community, with the exception of one community access point (which i’ve never seen in use). it costs something like $250 setup per household, plus subscription prices. currently, there seems to be 1 household subscriber…
i’m not a subscriber. i’m a teacher - my school picks up the wireless signal and bounces it around the classrooms, and i happen to live 50ft from work, so i pick the signal up from our encrypted network.
incidentally, maxit setup an unencrypted signal here in the village, which our computer would pick up if the school signal was out. as of today the maxit signal is password protected.
anyways, the internet isn’t free for the community. and anyways, we don’t even have cable out here, so jeez i wish guys like that complainer in town could just give us a break. oh, btw i don’t have a laptop (i wish) - i used my desktop computer. out.
pwned?
The MaxTache signal will remain unencrypted until the end of this month, then it will restrict by mac addresses. Billing will start Nov.1st. There’s now 5 homes with the link but we saw 9 people connected this afternoon. More will be hooked up next week.
The terms are identical to what wireless is priced around town, so nobody is getting it free.