Welcome Back! (ha-ha)

Well I am back in Bakersfield, and apparently my servers missed me, within hours of getting home, one server was hit by an attack, again, and again, and again - finally put in some tweaks to hopefully stop it for a bit, but then there was a network outage - so 30 minutes later that was squared away, and I snuck out to get a bite to eat.

All in all a wonderful break to the coast, a nice place to visit, stayed off the net and work as much as could be allowed, but the catch 22 to being the owner, syadmin, billing, support, and sole worker, is I can’t pass the buck but I have also fine-tuned my plan for Jan. 1, 2007 - a lot of changes will go into place then, pretty much a bulk of what I have been planning, some stuff customers will get before then, but the big stuff (new servers, and such) will come at the start of the new year.

The journey to Mac-Only is still on the table, looking realistically at the budget with the various big purchases yet to make this year, so at this point its wait and see, but I think it’ll be possible, a be sort of nice, my laptop has been odd lately, did some clean-up tonight,  but still more to do, switched my NAS back on here, going to offload some project files, photos, and music, and possibly re-install from scratch.

But as always, things like my BIG road trip, are still in the “things I’d like to do” category, but sadly, it’s looking like more and more it’ll happen after the new year, which I am sad to see happen, but at the same time if I can lay down some of this new infrastructure, possibilities are endless as to what I can do, and give me more flexibility to be out and about, and not worry about not being able to reach something while in the middle of say Oregon.

Last but not least, I am shipping off the video card from BfP once it gets back CentOS will be installed, and I am going to purchase a copy of cPanel for it, and set it up at the office to be the new “Friend” server, armed with a 250GB drive, and shortly after the budget balances out a secondary / backup 300GB drive - so should offer some nice space for friends, and 1.5-6.0mbps of bandwidth (that’s still in flux - working on a finalized office plan) but should be a seamless move since none of my friends use Frontpage - so no complex moves really other than maybe a path adjustment, of which most folks can do with VIM from ssh or a quick jump into FTP - but need for donations on this front are still welcome, but again, not required - probably be setup by next Friday if the RMA goes smoothly.

Anywhoo - 1:30am is rapidly approaching, so I am going to swap chairs (back broke off this one) and settle in for some various lil projects.