@yoursunny said: His computer touched the ESC key on the server, so that the server stuck on the boot menu when I rebooted Windows.
That bastard, I hope he has minesweeper nightmares now!
He wouldn't.
The auditorium manager works with microphones and projectors.
He doesn't know much about websites.
He had a student to make a website for the auditorium, hosted on the same server.
The main purpose of that site is to publish a PDF form for auditorium rentals, which should be downloaded, filled, and faxed in.
I found the website crashing all the time.
It's an ASP.Net site and there's no source code, so I can't fix it.
After talking to the higher ups, I extracted the PDF forms out of the database and posted in a corner of our website, and turned off his website.
There were no fuss about this one, because the moneymaker is the PDF: auditorium rental to entities outside the university is billable by the hour.
The latter entry also contains a story about how I exited the student housing department website.
I interviewed 8+ people and selected 3, one for each of the university websites I'm maintaining.
For the housing department site, I gave the new webmaster FTP access two weeks before my exit, so that he could have a look at my code (it's before I have git).
He found FTP inconvenient, so he uploaded an ASP Trojan horse in order to browse the files.
I had a script that digests every file in the website folder and detect any unexpected differences.
During my daily check, I noticed an unexpected file, and then found the Trojan horse.
I was very surprised that my extremely secure website got hacked - the folders aren't writable by IIS user and non HTTP ports cannot be accessed off-campus.
I found the IP address that accessed the Trojan horse, and sent a complaint to the university network operations center.
In response to the report, the switch port of the offending IP address was disabled.
Then, netadmin emailed me saying that the IP address is owned by one of our own, as I already listed his name as "upcoming webmaster".
I agreed to unblock them, and then called my successor telling him that he should have added an IP address check to his remote access script, and not just hiding it behind a long filename.
By that time, he and his roommates were without Internet for a whole day.
Hopefully he learned the lesson.
@yoursunny said: His computer touched the ESC key on the server, so that the server stuck on the boot menu when I rebooted Windows.
That bastard, I hope he has minesweeper nightmares now!
He wouldn't.
The auditorium manager works with microphones and projectors.
He doesn't know much about websites.
He had a student to make a website for the auditorium, hosted on the same server.
The main purpose of that site is to publish a PDF form for auditorium rentals, which should be downloaded, filled, and faxed in.
I found the website crashing all the time.
It's an ASP.Net site and there's no source code, so I can't fix it.
After talking to the higher ups, I extracted the PDF forms out of the database and posted in a corner of our website, and turned off his website.
There were no fuss about this one, because the moneymaker is the PDF: auditorium rental to entities outside the university is billable by the hour.
The latter entry also contains a story about how I exited the student housing department website.
I interviewed 8+ people and selected 3, one for each of the university websites I'm maintaining.
For the housing department site, I gave the new webmaster FTP access two weeks before my exit, so that he could have a look at my code (it's before I have git).
He found FTP inconvenient, so he uploaded an ASP Trojan horse in order to browse the files.
I had a script that digests every file in the website folder and detect any unexpected differences.
During my daily check, I noticed an unexpected file, and then found the Trojan horse.
I was very surprised that my extremely secure website got hacked - the folders aren't writable by IIS user and non HTTP ports cannot be accessed off-campus.
I found the IP address that accessed the Trojan horse, and sent a complaint to the university network operations center.
In response to the report, the switch port of the offending IP address was disabled.
Then, netadmin emailed me saying that the IP address is owned by one of our own, as I already listed his name as "upcoming webmaster".
I agreed to unblock them, and then called my successor telling him that he should have added an IP address check to his remote access script, and not just hiding it behind a long filename.
By that time, he and his roommates were without Internet for a whole day.
Hopefully he learned the lesson.
too technical for me to understand, but had not found the girls pictures. thanks for even replying me though, sunnyboy.
Dustin - the man who now runs Racknerd. It was year 2012 I think?
But even before that, I used the free web hosting site freewebs / geocities year 2005? At the age of 10 ...
First provider for me was chicago vps. Stayed with them for years until the default ubuntu template wouldnt even work anymore. Sadly they dont appear to be bankrupt currently
Recommended hosts:
Letbox, Data ideas, Hetzner, DediPath
One of the first I went with was Heart Internet, probably 10-15 years ago now. I also hosted with Lithium Hosting for a couple of years before moving onto VPS' and dedicated more often. Good to see that Lithium is still around and it seems they use ApisCP now too.
Syuh - SFTP Storage Pods from 50GB to TBs. UK, US and DE locations.
First shared hosting was webserve.ca back in the early-mid 2000's. They are now owned by Hostpapa. Then I jumped around a couple of shared hosting providers. First VPS was with Urpad in 2013. Memory serves me, this was the enticing offer I purchased.
2K13 2GB RAM
2048MB RAM
50GB Disk Space
1 IPv4 Address
750GB Bandwidth
100Mbps Port
OpenVZ/SolusVM
Price: $6.95/mo
Promo: L3BK1W
Well for first shared hosting provider it was SixServe(it was free)
as for VPS it was VPSmart/hypermart/databasemart(i think all three are the same, was cheapest windows server available at that time with free trial)
never had any dedi so no for that.
Active lurker nothing more nothing less, want to discuss something? i am all ears!
Spry.com around 2003 was my first real VPS. First virtual / shared host was prophetnetworks.net around 1996. Started hosting at home on a Slackware96 box late 1997.
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First VPS 256MB Windows 2003 Standard from EXABYTES is my first vps a very long long long time ago .
If I remember correctly, first hosting provider was Siteground and first VPS was from Prometeus. Both still alive.
then
Amazon, than digital ocean. I searched seedbox, someone on reddit told me the green forum.
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Those were the worst lol... Damn..
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Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
Ah, Scooter, lol. I didn't even know they did anything like that. Anyway, let me continue a bit off topic to make a little more fun of them.
VPS : slicehost
my first dedicated server from UK2
hobohost, one dollar shared hosting with cpanel ... support is excellent and still kicking alive.
openvirtual, my first vps and also my first entry to lowendworld. support is great, it's sad they're deadpooled.
dacentec, my first dedicated server experience. support is very good, but too many network maintenance.
proof or it didn't happen
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
He wouldn't.
The auditorium manager works with microphones and projectors.
He doesn't know much about websites.
He had a student to make a website for the auditorium, hosted on the same server.
The main purpose of that site is to publish a PDF form for auditorium rentals, which should be downloaded, filled, and faxed in.
I found the website crashing all the time.
It's an ASP.Net site and there's no source code, so I can't fix it.
After talking to the higher ups, I extracted the PDF forms out of the database and posted in a corner of our website, and turned off his website.
There were no fuss about this one, because the moneymaker is the PDF: auditorium rental to entities outside the university is billable by the hour.
Sure, here are two Blogger entries where I mentioned taking someone to dinner.
http://sunnypower.blogspot.com/2008/02/gpa_27.html
http://sunnypower.blogspot.com/2008/09/blog-post.html
The latter entry also contains a story about how I exited the student housing department website.
I interviewed 8+ people and selected 3, one for each of the university websites I'm maintaining.
For the housing department site, I gave the new webmaster FTP access two weeks before my exit, so that he could have a look at my code (it's before I have git).
He found FTP inconvenient, so he uploaded an ASP Trojan horse in order to browse the files.
I had a script that digests every file in the website folder and detect any unexpected differences.
During my daily check, I noticed an unexpected file, and then found the Trojan horse.
I was very surprised that my extremely secure website got hacked - the folders aren't writable by IIS user and non HTTP ports cannot be accessed off-campus.
I found the IP address that accessed the Trojan horse, and sent a complaint to the university network operations center.
In response to the report, the switch port of the offending IP address was disabled.
Then, netadmin emailed me saying that the IP address is owned by one of our own, as I already listed his name as "upcoming webmaster".
I agreed to unblock them, and then called my successor telling him that he should have added an IP address check to his remote access script, and not just hiding it behind a long filename.
By that time, he and his roommates were without Internet for a whole day.
Hopefully he learned the lesson.
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too technical for me to understand, but had not found the girls pictures. thanks for even replying me though, sunnyboy.
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
Dustin - the man who now runs Racknerd. It was year 2012 I think?
But even before that, I used the free web hosting site freewebs / geocities year 2005? At the age of 10 ...
VPS: Ramnode 128MB to bypass public wifi login
Web: free hosting from hostinger
First provider for me was chicago vps. Stayed with them for years until the default ubuntu template wouldnt even work anymore. Sadly they dont appear to be bankrupt currently
Recommended hosts:
Letbox, Data ideas, Hetzner, DediPath
First VPS ever was SliceHost I think. First LE* providers were BuyVM & Ramnode circa 2013-ish.
Shared hosting was.. MediaTemple I think, back in mid 00's
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My first VPS provider was from URPad.net
shared hosting? Hostmonster
vps from green forums? Crissic
Non green forums vps? DigitalOcean
Dedicated? Kimsufi.
Ruby, JS Programmer and Linux user
One of the first I went with was Heart Internet, probably 10-15 years ago now. I also hosted with Lithium Hosting for a couple of years before moving onto VPS' and dedicated more often. Good to see that Lithium is still around and it seems they use ApisCP now too.
Syuh - SFTP Storage Pods from 50GB to TBs. UK, US and DE locations.
First shared hosting was webserve.ca back in the early-mid 2000's. They are now owned by Hostpapa. Then I jumped around a couple of shared hosting providers. First VPS was with Urpad in 2013. Memory serves me, this was the enticing offer I purchased.
2K13 2GB RAM
https://lowendbox.com/blog/urpad-256mb-openvz-12year-6-95-1024mb-ssd-in-dallas-los-angeles-and-chicago/
Vpscheap.net
Well for first shared hosting provider it was SixServe(it was free)
as for VPS it was VPSmart/hypermart/databasemart(i think all three are the same, was cheapest windows server available at that time with free trial)
never had any dedi so no for that.
Active lurker nothing more nothing less, want to discuss something? i am all ears!
Well for first shared hosting provider it was SixServe(it was free) *copied from trk but i cound't say it any way diffrent
other than that @SSDBlaze got me into the vps world. first dedi was from someone private.
Spry.com around 2003 was my first real VPS. First virtual / shared host was prophetnetworks.net around 1996. Started hosting at home on a Slackware96 box late 1997.
AOL PrimeHost...back in like early 90's. ;-)
Compuserve for BBS/FTP hosting prior to that even though...
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nac.net and then staminus and gigeservers 😊
Sounds like you’re on IRC ☺️
For domain registrations, create an account at Dynadot (ref) and spend $9.99 within 48 hours to receive $5 DynaDollars!
Looking for cost-effective Managed/Anycast/DDoS-Protected/Geo DNS Services? Try ClouDNS (aff).
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