Diamond Notes

I have been following the ZFS saga for quite a while. I have been hoping that somehow Sun could release ZFS under a compatible license for Linux. Well, there is hope yet. While it might be a slim hope, take a look at this:

http://practical-tech.com/operating-system/linux-and-sun-partnering/

Here’s hoping!! Debian with ZFS running MySQL … hmmmmmmmm. Can I have one for Christmas?

Hey all,

This has nothing to do with MySQL.   Sorry about this, but I am at a loss.  Several months ago I switched from using godadday shared hosting that I had used for about a year and a half.  It wasn’t because of their service, which was always good, but because of the fact that I got sick of how they started using very blatent sexuality in their commercials.  You may laugh at that, and that is fine, but I have four kids and think about such things.  Anyways, I switched to another shared-website hosting solution.  They lasted a month until some script kiddie broke into the host server through ftp (wow..imagine that..breaking in through an unencrypted access point).

Not only did I have to find out about this from a reader of my site, but I was told by the hosting company that I needed to change my password and clean up everything and they weren’t going to do anything about it.

Because of the following I decided to change again:

• I didn’t cause the problem
• there never should have been a problem in the first place
• a simple script run from the root directory could have searched through all accounts and grepp’ed and sed’ed the offending lines from the html and php saving me and other hosted sites hours of work

I decided that it was time to have a bit more control over things.  So, I got a vps with another company.  Now I could keep the stupid things from happening, but three times in two weeks my entire vps has gone unavailable.  Today it was for almost six hours. No reason given.Is it is just me or is this infuriating?  So, I am going to change again very soon.  This time I am going to solicit some input as I seem to make bad choices when it comes to hosting.  I have to stop changing providers as it just causes more problem. I am looking for a Xen-based vps.  Open to suggestions

Again, sorry for the bother about such an off-topic item.  Please forgive me but I am pulling out my rapidly greying hair.

Sorry everyone  I have been down for a few days.  Last week my sight was messed up when some script kiddie compromised the shared hosting server my site was hosted on.  So, I have spent the weekend moving my domain to a virtual server where I have a lot more control over things.  The blog is back online and I think everything is up and running except my paragon-cs email.  I still have that to get that working.

Please let me know if you run into any problems.  I can be reached at “mysql.consulting” at “gmail.com”.

Special thanks to the reader who pointed out the compromise (javascript pop-ups inserted into webpages that displayed pop-ups - annoying but not serious).

Sorry for the troubles!!