Virtual hosts allow me to host more than one domain pointing to the server and using different directories. Currently there are two pointing towards this server and I have just configured them so that both black-flag.co.uk and www.cosmo1847.co.uk now work as they did before the reformat.
Thank you for your patience
The server was meant to be up and running by this time last night. Within the past hour it has all come together with PHP5 and MySQL being brought online within the past half an hour of writing this. The server is not finished yet but Apache, PHP5 and MySQL are working so I have been able to change back to the main server. My second server has done a good job and I have been updating the homepage with news about the server update. Thank you for your patience.
Server upgrades
The server has had a few hardware upgrades to add cooling, sound levels and storage. I have added a Lite-on DVD-RW as I burn large amounts of data from the server that won’t fit on a DVD. I’ve put an 80mm fan on the back to take out the hot air from the case and changed the 200W Seagate PSU for a 350W Lite-on to decrease the sound levels. At the moment there is a ATI 9550 256MB graphics card installed in the server that I’m using to set up the DVD-RW but I may leave it in there as it may come in handy, but normally there wouldn’t be a graphics card due to heat and because I never use them.
There are some planned upgrades for the future which include a SATAII PCI controller and some SATAII hard drives to boost the storage space. Another upgrade would be from 100Mb/s to 1000Mb/s network card that greatly boost the speed of the network when I backup my computers.
New Email
After talking to Graham from IdleEntity.net about my email he added me to his server’s mail domain hosting list. Graham was the previous host for my websites but now he provides me with email as I have a dynamic IP address meaning that it is hard to prove where emails came from. The new email address for black flag is blackflag[at]black-flag.co.uk . Any other email send to the black-flag.co.uk domain will be rejected by the server.
Mozbot
Something I wanted on the IRC channel was a bot that would keep the operator position and make allowed users operators when they log into the server. With Mozbot I have been able to do that. It sits there and makes me a operator when I ask it to instead of waiting for the operator to promote mt status. A operator is a user in the IRC channel that has control to manage the channel and to kick other users off the server if need be.
Mozbot Homepage