11Jan 2012 by Asim Zeeshan 17 Comments

Bought another irresistible dedicated server offer

Experiments, Personal
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 [code] [root@kvm ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=iotest bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -fr iotest 16384+0…
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23Dec 2011 by Asim Zeeshan 7 Comments

Good bye, Hello HostDime

Personal
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)
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16Aug 2010 by Asim Zeeshan 3 Comments

A new home for my Expired Domain Harvesting Project

Experiments, Personal
Update (Apr 22, 2011): Please read my post NordicVPS is down the drain? to learn more about this host before ordering with them. EXPIREDRUS.COM is a lame name that I will be using for my Expired Domain Harvesting Experiment that I have been doing in the last many weeks. The records I have collected are totally around 5.5million using lighttpd, PHP5 and MySQL (without innodb) on a 128MB XEN PV box with just 5GB of space. Wow, it will serve me two major purposes How to manage a small box with challenging low resources How to manage millions and millions of records in single mysql database table and replicate them to another VPS node. I am doing all this on a low-budget but extremely powerful XEN VPS from multiple providers…
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29Jul 2010 by Asim Zeeshan 1 Comment

Using Facebook Graph API to keep an eye on friends activity

Experiments, Personal, Social Networking, Virtual Private Server
Life is really moving in the fast lane for me, and Im pretty sure for most of you readers too. I login to social-networking platforms after weeks and I cant recognize most of these faces (even though they are my friends). Its proven that Humans tend to recognize people by face more quickly then names and email addresses so whenever someone puts on a new face (uploads a new profile-picture), I have hard time getting to know them. Well, I thought today, I have been developing in facebook application for so long now - Why not put online a few hours to fetch Facebook Friends data via API and keeping track of who did what? (status updates) and who changed his/her profile picture? So last night I was up, as…
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23Jun 2010 by Asim Zeeshan 6 Comments

My First IPv6 address

Personal
My first IPv6 address is 2607:f358:1:fed5:2::178 IPv4 pool (the ip address range as we know today) will dry by the end of this year or mid-next year. SO IPv6 is here for all our future needs :) Thanks to BuyVM.net for my first VPS with IPv6 address.
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27May 2010 by Asim Zeeshan 1 Comment

Linode is Blazzing Fast

Personal, Thoughts
I asked my client to buy a Linode for some testing purposes and I tried it for the first time. I must say, Linode is blazzing fast. Downloads are touching 8M/sec and speed, performance is as if its running on a VM on my local system. Update: Now its been almost a month running Linode and I strongly recommend this VPS company.
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09Jan 2010 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Finally updated my blog theme in 2010

Personal
The first day I applied the theme that was on this blog most (almost all) of 2009, I knew I had to change it someday because it was too heavy. The only reason I liked that theme was how it differentiated between two posts on the homepage. Anyway, I have been spending quiet some time during the last few days to update my blog and use widgets (for the first time on WordPress platform :P) etc and I hope I have chosen a nice alternative to my previous theme, although I am pretty sure that some of you will still think its almost the same as the previous one but its not.
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