I have just realised that I have not written anything here for more than a week! Sorry I have really been busy, but let me assure you that this blog is still alive! Some of the things that I have recently been doing:

Testing out Lxadmin

Testing out Lxlabs’ Lxadmin and their “Host-in-a-box” solution, i.e. the very first control panel platform for lighttpd. It came out from a discussion at WHT on whether Host-in-a-box can serve 8 million hits a day on a 128Mb burstable VPS. I am still not convinced, so I guess I shall find out myself :)

So far I am actually quite impressed with Lxadmin — light weight, feature rich, and free with the VPS package. I shall write a review in a few weeks time.

Signing up New VPS

To test out Lxadmin however, I need to source a cheap OpenVZ VPS running CentOS. I ended up actually signing up two providers — so now I have two sub-$10/month VPS running Host-in-a-box. I initially signed up one, but VPS provisioning took way too long (over 24 hours). I then signed up with another guy (which also took 10+ hours, what is wrong with these guys?!) While preparing to fire a refund request to the first guy, I received an email telling me that my first VPS is now ready to go. Well, they are both under $10 but now I wonder what am I going to do with them.

Now onto CentOS — I hate it. Yum is such a slow memory hog, and I basically cannot run yum update on my low-mem VPS. Lucky I will just stick to control panels.

Other Commitments

Been very busy with my other hobby sites. I have just formed partnership with another website so we are at the stage exchanging API specs to integrate some of our features. Looks like there is going to be more coding to do this weekend.

Elsie

Finally, I have been busy with this girl. Elsie, who was born on Sunday 18 March, has been keeping us awake.

Going to do some nappy changing now.