Backups. No one likes doing them, but they’re too important not to do. Typically when I’m doing stuff for my websites, I will occasionally do a tar of a directory and save it off, or even set up a script that will do this nightly. Then I have issues with disks filling up, and not wanting to delete my backups for fear of losing something (like the 20 copies aren’t enough!)
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Up until a couple of years ago, I used shared web hosting for serving up my various sites. I went through several of them because for whatever reason, they turned out to not be what I wanted. I finally came to the realization that I needed to get my own dedicated host. I found a good provider (The Planet), and started migrating over my websites (along with my friend Chris’ sites). Something I knew I would have to learn is how to set up Apache to be able to do virtual hosting. In this guide, I’ll show you how I did it, and the script I created to make things easier.
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Last year, I wrote a tool called PerlerPal, to help make perler beading easier. It’s been over a year now, and I’m cleaning out my closet, so to speak. I have moved PerlerPal to it’s new home. It might move to it’s own domain/site at a later date, but just trying to get things organized here. Please use this post to comment good/bad about the tool. I have moved the comments from the old blog (which is going away soon) to here, so the dates will be a little off.
So, I’ve been considering registering a new domain for more of the techinical blogging that I do, so, since edsalisbury.com is taken, I got .net and .org, and this blog was formed. I also coincidently just had my hard drive crash on my main desktop. I had lots of data on it, and was able to recover most of it. Details on how I did that forthcoming. I’ve also been thinking about installing Linux on my main machine. This would be a huge change, as I have run Windows for many years now. I’ll of course be blogging about that. It’s definitely good blog-fodder. In any case, things will probably be changing a little bit around here, as things are still new and shiny. Welcome to the new site!
