I have got a working FTP server installed on the server but there is a problem, A very big problem. It accepts my user fine but not the new one that I made for Keaton. Using my ftp client, CyberDuck, I can’t log in using FTP but I can using SSH as I have made Keaton a user on the computer. The problem with SSH is the securety risk is poses to the server as they can get into all sorts out places inclusing the root, web and my person files that are stored on the server. For this reason I shell not allow using SSH access until I have sorted out a way to limit their access to directories. I will be working on FTP in the hoildays to hopefully fix this problem. Until then no one can upload stuff to the server.
Monthly Archive for December, 2006
First I want to say I am sorry for the downtime. I moved the server so I had to turn it off but I also changed over the power supply unit (PSU) for the server for a few reasons. The main reason is that the old PSU was mounted on the top of the case so I couldn not put things on top of it without it over heating. The second reason was because the recommend Wattage is 150W and the old PSU is 140W even though the old one was the orginal in the computer. The third reason was that the PSU was non-ATX so it was mounted in a funny position, at the top of the case. It now has a nice 200W SeaSonic PSU installed that I took out of another old computer I was given.
I have also got the icon that is next to the URL to display my favicon instead of the browser default to give some nice relation to the hostee’s site and the server. Another reason the server went down was because in the process of moving the server and another desktop I managed to pull the router off it’s mounts and onto the floor that knocked out the ADSL cable. As you can see everything is up and running nicely now and you can see the favicon in the sites hosted on this server.
WordPress released a multi-user version of their system that allows people to sign up and create their own blogs. After some tinkering I have managed to install and get working this system on my server that will handle all new bloggers on my server. This has replaced the system of me coping the wordpress files and making a new database table and user so all I have now is only one set of files and a single database to handle all of the new blogs. The main problem I have at the moment is that I do know have a mail server installed so it can’t send you any emails with your password or activation key in. At the moment I have to get the key from the database and activate your blog for you but I am hoping to fix this at some point.
Black Flag Blogs
This morning EveryDNS who provide the DNS services for my domains had a large scale DoS (Denial of Service) attack that stopped the server from working. This has been restore from a 400Mb/s of DoS attacks into 2Mb/s of DNS queries. In other words the service has been restored for now.
This server has been online for one month now and within that time the services have in. It has web and IRC, that doesn’t seem that much but they work 
It works well as a file server and it’s set up as the N drive on my desktop.