We’ve added some cluster servers to hopefully speed up my.imagepile and regular mirrors, there were some bumps this weekend as I was in Vancouver and of course since I leave for a nice vacation everything breaks ever couple hours… I guess that just shows how much maintenance is really needed to keep things running smoothly when you get 15-20 million hits a day ^.^

I’ve take a bunch of pictures of our colo at the Login Datacenter of some of our servers and our new partner Red Leaf Networks (redleafnetworks.com) who will be providing dedicated servers and colocation right next to the imagepile gear on the same high quality Qwest and Limelight blend 🙂

Right-o

-Scott

Well I’ve finally gotten enough storage in my mirror server(s) to light up the Fedora Core mirror which is now available @ http://fedora.mirrors.imagepile.net/ , it is still currently synching up2date however there is already over 150GB of data available!!

-Scott

Got my hands on a old (but new for me) 2611 to replace the POS actiontec that Qwest sent me for my DSL service. The reason I call it a POS is it couldn’t hold a connection above 5Mbps, slapped a ADSL card in the 2611 and haven’t had a outage since 😉

-Scott

Well I just want to say Merry Christmas to everyone (and no it’s not a holiday tree it’s a f*cking christmas tree you PC bastards). And that I hope everyone enjoys a good christmas season with family and friends.

My cats sure are enjoying my new comforter more than I get to:

-Scott

One of the setbacks of running a very popular website (imagepile.net) is the amount of spam that can be thrown your way (not to mention random DDoS attacks and the like).  There isn’t much you can do about attacks other than do the best you can to mitigate them, on the other hand spam is super easy to block.  If you are the proud owner of a large domain and the lucky recipient of hundreds of spam emails, check out qmailrocks.org , they’ve got a great simple tutorial to setup your very own Qmail server with Anti-Virus and Spam filtering thanks to ClamAV and Spam Assassin.  They provide a great step by step tutorial for all popular *nix distro’s.

Oh and did I mention it’s free? suck on that M$ Exchange

-S

Most of the demolition is done on the 2 new suites so here are some pictures 🙂