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.

Easy part first — most of you who read this blog probably don’t personally know me (unlike the readers of my other blog), so “the things you didn’t know” probably covers everything.

1. I don’t speak nor understand Taiwanese/Hokkien, despite living in the south part of Taiwan for the first 14 years of my life.
2. I studied “fine arts” from grade 3 to grade 8 in those selected school in Taiwan, and many of my primary school classmates subsequently became arts teachers. Somehow I rebelled and became a code monkey…
3. I was once an avid OS/2 developer/advocate. That did not last long.
4. There was one subject which I almost failed at uni — Psychology 1. Don’t ask why a CS student took a psychology class.
5. I didn’t have a TV from 1995 to 2005. I do have one at home now, and watch maybe 10 minutes of TV in a month.

Now comes the hard part — I need to tag someone else. I hardly know anyone who read this blog, but I’ll give it a try. Taggng Glenn, Matt and Ben.