RimuHosting

Posted by mop Mon, 28 Jun 2004 01:26:00 GMT

In-Touch now has a bit of virtual space at RimuHosting. The company is based in New Zealand, but our server is located in Dallas TX. Rimu is unique in that they provide Virtual Private Servers (VPL) using User Mode Linux and a variety of Linux distros, including Debian.

We’re currently on a $40USD/month plan that provides a VPS with 128MB of RAM, 4GB of disk space, and up to 60GB of traffic. I’m guessing the hardware is a dual Xeon running at 2.8GHz. So far rimu.intouch.ca is just used to host the In-Touch blogs, but I may also use it for other In-Touch and customer services. At the very least, I’d like to learn something about UML services.

Some stats from rimu.intouch.ca:

tsai:/home/mpierson# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor	: 0
vendor_id	: User Mode Linux
model name	: UML
mode		: skas
host		: Linux host32.rimuhosting.com 2.6.6 #3 SMP Thu Jun 10 01:10:47 UTC 2004 i686
bogomips	: 2510.02

tsai:/home/mpierson# free
total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        125532      95932      29600          0       7896      64668
-/+ buffers/cache:      23368     102164
Swap:        98296          0      98296

tsai:/home/mpierson# df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/ubd0              4128448    452448   3466288  12% /
tmpfs                    62764         0     62764   0% /dev/shm

The only gotcha I’ve encountered so far is the incompatibility between UML and the GNU-TLS libraries in Debian sid. I orderd the VPS with Debian woody and one of the Rimu admins had to rescue our VPS after a "apt-get dist-upgrade" to sid failed. A few dpkg-divert additions were required for /lib/tls/*, but now rimu is happily running sid.

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pyBlosxom Install

Posted by mop Mon, 28 Jun 2004 00:06:00 GMT

Well, here it is. pyBlosxom is now installed on blog.intouch.ca.

I started with the Debian version of pyBlosxom in the experimental archives, and created a mini install in each user’s home dir. This more-or-less follows the install suggestions in the pyBlosxom wiki. The flavour templates are roughly based on the html flavour that comes bundled in the Debian package.

Each user now has files in their home directory similar to:

www
 |
 - pyblosxom
   |
   - data
      content-type.html
      head.html
      story.html
      footer.html
   - etc
      config.py
   - plugins
      pycalendar.py
   - cgi-bin
      pyblosxom.cgi

Blog are placed in the data subdir with a ’.txt’ suffix. The file name is significant when constructing permanent linke to articles so best to make it descriptive. Articles can be written in plain text or in HTML (still with ’.txt’ suffix) -- I suggest HTML for readability. pyBlosxom auto-magically classifies articles according the the file system hierachy under the data directory.

My goal is to write at least one article per day on work related subjects, and to convince other In-Touch’ers to do the same.

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