Suramya's Blog : Welcome to my crazy life…

My blog is now being hosted using WordPress. It was defiently very easy to setup and it also imported all my old entries nicely. Unfortunately for some reason it decided that all the html in the old entries has to be shown as is so I now have to edit each entry *again* and fix the formating errors and make them look normal again. The second issue is that the comments wern’t imported so I will have to do that manually.

So far I like WordPress and I think it’s a lot more powerful than Serendipity and is defiently less resource intensive. Will be fixing the remaining entries over the next few days so the blog should be fixed by the end of the week.

Well this is all for now. Will keep you posted.

– Suramya

Ok Everyone, After spending a couple of hours messing around with my Blog software I have finally managed to get everything working again.:-). Comments are working, posting is working and now all I have to do is finish recategorizing the content (I created some new subcategories and have to move the content to them)

Now the next item in my list is to fix the wierd problems I have been having with Apache & MySQL where suddenly they start using 100% of the CPU & memory and then when they run out of RAM they crash.

If you have any idea’s why this could be happening let me know. Now its time for me to relax and watch a movie or something. Fixing this stupid problem gave me a headache.

– Suramya

Hi Everyone,

Just finished writing a new article on How to Install Debian from Scratch and have posted it in the Linux Tutorial’s section of the site. Debian From Scratch (DFS) is a special version of Debian which gives the user complete control over what software is installed and where it is installed. Think of it as Linux From Scratch install but with the Debian advantages (Ease of maintainence, installation etc).

Since DFS give so much control over what is installed where on the system its esp suited for servers as there are no unwanted programs installed which in turn makes it easier to harden the server

Check out the article and let me know what you think.

– Suramya

suramya.com is now back up after a 2 day downtime which was a lot longer than what I was aiming for… But I blame this delay on the server, it took forever to compile and install stuff… Plus I had forgotten how much I had customized the server so I had to re-install everything from scratch to bring it back to normal.

NEways, sorry for the extended downtime. Hopefully the sever shouldn’t be going down so often now. Also I have installed monitoring software on my home machine which will monitor the webserver so I will know if anything goes down and when I need to bring stuff back up again.

Let me know if you have any problems with the site.

Thanks,
Suramya

Hi,
Suramya.com will be down for a couple of hours over the weekend so that I can do some upgrades on the webserver. I don’t think that this will take more than a few hours but lets see…

Will keep you posted.

– Suramya