Today, I was sad to read the post on my favourite blog lowendbox.com (LEB). I discovered LEB a few years ago and it has helped me learn a lot and try out many different VPS services all under $7/mo. But finally the blog anonymous blog author of LEB whom we call Low End Admin (LEA) has announced that this blog is taking a lot of his time hence he may be selling or giving it to someone who can run it at least as good as LEA himself.
Its a sad day Indeed!
I just bought another irresistible dedicated server offer from a reputable provider (although I have no use of it at the moment). The details of the mouth watering deal is
Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2100 CPU @ 3.10GHz
4GB DDR3 Memory
500 Gig Sata hard drive
100mbit network
5 IPs
all that for just $49/mo
I got the hard upgraded to a 1TB Sata3 and memory (RAM) upgraded to a whopping 12GB (some one you may be surprised to see ONLY 12GB but for me, this is the heaviest system I have rented to date). I am planning to keep it running even though I have no use for it at the moment.
Update:
Classic IO test
[root@kvm ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=iotest bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -fr iotest 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 9.17903 seconds, 117 MB/s
Classic Network test
[root@kvm ~]# wget cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test -O 100mb.test --2012-01-17 00:53:25-- http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175 Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: `100mb.test' 100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 11.2M/s in 9.0s 2012-01-17 00:53:34 (11.1 MB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]
I started out with iweb.com yearly ago (approx 5-6 years ago). I upgraded servers, changed servers completely but managed 2 servers during my time. If someone asks me to rank them, here is my ranking/review of iweb.com
I have moved my blog *again* from VooServers.com XEN-PV VPS to HostDime.com Dedicated server, the reason for move? Well, a very very very attractive deal for a Core2Quad 8300 series server with 4GB RAM and 1TB drive.
Dont take it as if VooServer.com VPS was not stable, its VERY stable but the difference between my VooServers.com VPS and this dedicated server was very minor hence I made the move.
Besides, I still use VooServer.com’s VPS for redundant DNS hosting (cPanel-DNSonly)
DHA Cinema is still closed with this notice, shame on you DHA
Sources say, A DHA official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said it was difficult to say when the cinema would open again because
Mandviwalla’s contract has expired and DHA does not plan on renewing it.
The reason for not being here for so long is that my mother died on 9th Oct, 2011. She had Liver Cirrhosis, for some years now. I really miss you Mum :’(
I tried to send out a simple message to friends to test the new Facebook messenger and this is what I get #fail
If you want to try out yourself, download it from the marketplace.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, one of the political parties of Pakistan has introduced a one of its kind service in Pakistan. They will be sending SMS and has asked everyone to join for free.
The thing I like about Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is that its moving away from the bullsh*t drama happening in the country and probably thats the reason its becoming so popular in general public especially youth as well.
To subscribe to these SMS notifications, just send your name + city via SMS to 80022 (using any cellular network in Pakistan)
From the official forum post
Thanks for your patience everyone. We are still investigating but don’t want to leave you in the dark. Here’s what we know so far:
- Our server was compromised (not at the root level but serious enough nonetheless) and is being used to send those malicious e-mails to customers. We have disabled our mail server to interrupt this process.
- Some customer information has been compromised: Name, e-mail address, mailing address, license ID#’s.
- Billing information (e.g. Credit Card numbers, PayPal accounts, etc.) is absolutely safe. We use a restricted merchant gateway that doesn’t allow us, even as owners, to view your full credit card information.
- Finally, don’t click that link. It’s a malicious program but it can be cleaned with Trend Micro Housecall, MalwareByte’s Anti-Malware, etc.
Will keep you updated..
Mark
Some of the customers started getting scam-ish email like this. I dont use DirectAdmin (aka DA), but still many DO use it since its a cheap control panel starting from FREE with quarterly or yearly packages to $5/month, its cheaper then my CPanel licenses 
I recently got two windows VPS for testing and stuff. The issue I faced was that even though they were Windows 2008 VPS, I still could not ping it. Came to know later that its a security feature and hence all pings are disabled.
You just need to enable it by running the following command on command prompt
netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8
If you wish to disable it, later, you may run this to do so
netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 disable
