Premium Server Upgrades

This was supposed to all happen on this coming Sunday during off hours, but the boys at the NOC got their wires crossed. Yesterday between 4:00pm and 5:45pm New York time four of the Premium servers were migrated to beefed up servers (specs below). master.publicip.com, auth3.wificontrol.net, auth1.wificontrol.net, and ndb1.publicip.com were moved and all experienced downtime. Hotspots were not affected by this move because of the system architecture.

Server specs:

P4 3.2 Ghz with 800Mhz FSB, 1MB L2 cache
2 GB RAM
SATA drives in hardware RAID configuration
40 GB hard drive space

The migration will be completed next week when auth2.wificontrol.net, and ndb2.publicip.com are migrated. ndb3 and ndb4 will be taken offline by the end of next week. These two servers were added not for redundancy, but to carry the load. With the new servers they should not be needed and removing them should increase performance of the cluster.

I apologize for the downtime.... My stomach was in knots the entire time. But at least it was for a good reason.

TechEscape 4.0: No Strings Attached

Anybody that's a member of the MLA (Michigan Library Association), will get a chance to see me and Ronnie Morgan from the Genesee District Library give a live demo of the ZoneCD and Zone Control in Lansing Michigan on Friday, March 10 at a wireless workshop.

Details available here:
http://www.cmpl.org/mla/ltd/Events/2006techescape/index.htm

Opinions are like assholes

Every project has one. Public IP's showed it's face yesterday in the forum. I have no problem if you don't agree with my vision, just don't try to slam me in my own forum and not expect me to come out swinging. Go do it in your own forum where others like yourself can bash me to pieces and have a good ol' time.

People come to Public IP trying to make it what they need. I am always willing, and even eager to help, but there are times when I can't. The Install version is one of these things.... The ZoneCD install version is not as simple as releasing a distro that will install to a disk. It needs to stay updated. Nobody wants to install a new OS every few months... or possibly weeks(especially in the early releases). I need to put an apt repository online to download updates, and maybe even use CVS too. Also support demands will increase probably by 5x to 10x because people will be hosing their system. It happens....

An Install version may be what you need, but it may be exactly what causes the demise of Public IP - If it's not done correctly.

Connecting the ZoneCD directly to the Internet

Don't do it! I am receiving more and more complaints and FYI's that spammers are utilizing Squid, or DG to relay spam. This usually results in your ISP shutting you down, or blocking ports. If you have read the setup instructions http://www.publicip.net/devl/setup.php you will notice that i do not recomend connecting the ZoneCD directly to the Internet. Please DO NOT connect the zonecd pc directly to the internet!! The eth0 side of the box should be connected to a LAN, or stick a router out on the Internet then connect the zonecd box to the router. Eth0 has not been hardened to withstand the abuse coming from the Internet.

What's NOT been happening..

New development. I've been in seclusion for a few months. At least that's probably how it appears to most of you. I've been working behind the scenes on support issues, and some minor bug fixes, as well as a few enhancements to Premium service. I have still been very busy.

I've spent alot of my time over the last couple of years working on public ip. I owed some make-up time to my family... BUT, I think I am just about paid-up now (or maybe I'm just fed-up :) . It's hard to break out of the casual lifestyle of a normal father/husband back into the madness of livecd development. But I feel the urge coming back.

Public IP Services is on the verge of becoming something very big... I think that's what is causing me to step out of the spotlight and do more behind the scenes work. I think I liked posting in the blog more when nobody was reading it. Weird right? It's taking me time to adjust to everything happening around me.

Sooo... No worries, I am not terminally ill or giving up. I am just adjusting and observing to everything around me. Sometimes you need to stop building, so you can see how far you have gone, and what still needs to be finished.

Testing 1-2-3

This thing still working ?