I occasionally get asked about hosting services I use, how I manage domains, which OS I use and what softwares I use. So without further ado, I’ll get to explaining about this particular domain and just what it does.
LinuxConnector.Com was just a random domain name I came up with to publish some articles on various Ubuntu 20.04 administration tasks and howto.
This particular server is run at Ionos.com, costs me $5 a month, and I currently host 6 separate domains on it, though it will easily handle 100 domains. The server is an Ubuntu 20.04 Intel based server with 4 gigabytes of RAM and 80 gigabytes of hard drive space.
The primary software being used is WordPress to front end all the web sites, with mysql server on the backend and Apache web server to serve up the content.
I have worked my entire career in large enterprise class follow the sun infrastructures with literally hundreds to thousands of servers so my experience allows me to create and utilize the bare minimum to maximum effect.
In some cases it’s not who you know, but what you know. If you are interested in working with me, building your own computing infrastructure, getting a website (I don’t create web sites per se, but I do handle everything on the backend including the hardware and OS environment, backups, redundancy, etc.) don’t hesitate to contact me. I can build and administrate anything you need. I’m the expensive component, not the hardware or software or even hosting venues.
Just purchased a couple used Dell M1000 bare metal servers fully populated with 8x M910 Blades. This might not mean a lot to the average user but it’s a whole lot of processing power for my small IaaS, Cloud, consulting company. I will be moving all my current servers over to this “bare metal” ‘and I’ve opted to run OpenStack to handle all the details. Basically it’s hypervisor/virtualization technology fully based on open source Linux technology as my current cloud is 100% Ubuntu Linux and Kubernetes based. It’ll be a couple months to get everything apportioned and I currently have 200 terabytes in Dell arrays which will be fiber connected to the M1000’s and for the hardware I’m making sure everything is redundant and ready for this change to my business operations. Yes, it’s older technology however being a systems engineer who has worked in enterprise class environments for most of my career it will allow me to leverage these systems and streamline them to operate as fast if not faster than current technology. I’ve already standardized on things like Openstack, MySQL (ugh, I’m currently negotiating licenses), Apache 2.x and many other open source infrastructure “ware” and I’m excited to moving away from Azure and AWS for somethings, though they will still be major components in my business though now I own the hardware and rackspace to offset some of my business to. I’ll still need to use major providers for some things, most notable bandwidth as I’m not at the point where 100gig telco links are something I can afford yet however I have access to that massive bandwidth through my current Azure and AWS contracts, which fortunately are already setup for efficient and cheap pass through bandwidth once all components are in place. I’m excited but more importantly this is what I love to do and I very much look forward to the massive amount of work hours I’ll be putting in over the next few months. I have a large base of Sun/Oracle Hardware and Solaris OS hardware and customers I support who can’t or won’t change over but now I’ll at least be able have proper management infrastructure. I could go on for another hour but I’ll stop here because I have so much to do. Looking for investors and clients as usual so if you have interest in investing or becoming a client please send an email to support@zettabytes.org.