How to host your own blog
Grandad April 23rd, 2008
I’m sure none of you are interested as to how I got myself a web server, but it’s my blog, so I’ll tell you anyway.
It started a couple of weeks ago, as I mentioned before. I saw this offer on a web site, and it looked geeky. I always wanted to be a geek, because it’s the next best thing to being a yuppy.
Now, as it happens, that company is owned by my old friend Michele. I should point out at this stage that Michele is a man [as far as I know] and he gets very touchy when people call him a woman, so there is nothing untoward going on there. He may fancy me, but I certainly don’t fancy him.
I rang Michele.
"Howya Grandad! What can I do for you?"
"I want one of those server things you are advertising. What are they for."
"Putting web sites on," he sighed.
"I’ll take one."
"Are you sure about that?" he asked. "Do you know anything about setting up servers and maintaining them?"
"Yes," I lied.
Now Michele may be a friend, but he is also a business man. He demanded money. I didn’t mind that as I have plenty old credit cards lying around. I picked one at random, and MaryLou Kawalszki of Florida paid for my server.
I played around with it for a while, looking into various folders and things, but that got boring. I stuck a web site on it. That worked a treat.
On Saturday, I had great fun. I started downloading web sites from the Interweb, and copying them onto my new server.
On Sunday, the server blew up.
I think it may have been the Bank of Ireland web site, or there again, it could have been eBay that caused the problem. But none of the sites worked and I couldn’t connect to the server to fix it.
I like to lurk on ICQ, and fortunately [for me] Paul, who works with Michele logged on. So I sent him a message - "HELP!"
He was very nice about it, considering it was half six on a Sunday evening. He cried for a little while, but eventually he calmed down and he finally got my server running again. He suggested that I might like to take Google.ie off it and put it back where it belonged. He also suggested that I might be having memory problems. I told him it was my age, but he said no, that he meant the server might have memory problems.
So on Monday, I annoyed them all in their office about my server and just to get rid of me, they put in extra memory. It has been running perfectly ever since.
They are a very nice bunch in Blacknight, though they do tend to get a bit hysterical when I ring them, for some reason. They need Prozac.
I have just finished uploading Google Earth onto it, and now I’m going to delete all the stuff in the folder called ‘bin’.
There is an awful lot of rubbish in it.
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Be careful or they might delete you!
I’d suggest getting rid of all the stuff in /dev as well - after all, surely a production server doesn’t need the development files any more?
Granny mar - They can’t delete me. I’m paid for.
Kae - Do you think so? I’ll try that. And also /etc. I don’t want accessories..
Grandad…my hubby is French Canadian, (he is loathe to say so though sometimes) and his name is Michel. He has no E on the end…if that makes any difference.
Have a good day my dear!
I’m confused
Laurie - If you want to annoy my Michele, spell his name Michelle
He claims it’s Italian.
Roy - It’s easy enough. Just show it from the outset who’s the boss!!
Grandad,
Credit card fraud?!? I’ll be disabling the server in a few mins
Of course you could always donate to the BK SysAdmin Whiskey fund! 
[...] The site has moved home once more. Now it’s sitting on a shiny new thing from Blacknight called a VPS. Michele was great in talking me through some of the intricacies the other night and I managed to sort the full move today. You should check them out. Real cheap and complete control. Grandad has a great story on how he’s done the same. [...]
Niall - What about the HearRambles SysAdmin Whiskey Fund? You got your money. Do you really care what account it came out of?
But the BK admins have to put up with Michelle on a daily basis, that fund needs filling
Niall.
Niall - That’s a good point. But there again, you do have a fridge full of Ubuntu Linux in cans?
And I am going to tell him how you spelled her name
Ubuntu Cola has the disadvantage of lacking the good auld alcomahall stuff
I’m sure I’ve called him much worse over the course of the last week, so an extra l isn’t going to matter much!
I’m going to telll him/her anyway.
I looked up this VPS stuff at Blacknight and couldn’t understand any of it so I stuck with what I had. Maybe I should call up Michele again and ask him to change it. Or maybe not. Don’t know. This is all very hard.
Who is this Mick Ceili ? He sounds Irish to me.
I wanted to phone Blacknight last night and call them a crowd of Ubuntus after they suspended my account for exceeding my bandwidth. Even though I did exceed my bandwidth.
Bock - It’s simple.. I’ll copy your site onto my thingy and we’ll be suckin’ diesel. What’s bandwidth? You eating too many burgers?
Brianf - I think he’s Irish all right. It’s hard to tell these days.
This is all gobbledygook to me but I’m glad it’s sorted for you now
(off topic but I wasn’t sure how to spell gobbledygook so I googled it and found an entire Wikipedia article on said word. I loves the interweb)