Muffinresearch Labs by Stuart Colville

Moving hosts: one more time with feeling | 2 Comments

Posted in Muffin Research Labs on 13th April 2006, 9:47 pm by

I’ve been with Dreamhost about 20 days and in within that time I have witness over 3hours of total server outage. To that end I have decided to go back to the dedicated server which I was originally on as it has now been fixed and is running much better with the full complement of 512Mb of memory.

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  • http://www.shepherdweb.com/ Shane Shepherd

    Stuart,

    I have almost completely moved all my sites to Dreamhost…no complaints at this point. Of course my previous host (not named…at least until I can finish getting the rest of my sites off their server) has left a lot of bad taste in my mouth…almost anything would be better at this point. This may just be the way of it with shared hosting.

  • http://muffinresearch.co.uk Stuart Colville

    Fair enough, there are a lot of people that are happy with Dreamhost and that’s what attracted me in the first place.

    However, having been with them for only a few weeks and seeing 3 hours downtime didn’t exactly fill me with confidence. I am going to stick with this dedicated box for now and when it comes up for renewal I am going to take a look at Media Temple.

GNU screen: open tab in current working directory|(1)

A nice trick for having screen open a new tab in the same directory as the one you’re currently in. To use it add it to your .screenrc

# Open new window in current dir.
bind c stuff "screen -X chdir \$PWD;screen^M"
bind ^c stuff "screen -X chdir \$PWD;screen^M"

Hat tip: mteckert on SuperUser.com

Ubuntu: add-apt-repository: command not found|(3)

When you’re using a minimal Ubuntu install if you find the ‘add-apt-repository’ command is missing (it’s useful for adding PPAs and other repositories), then simply run:

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

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