Installing and Configuring Eggdrop on Debian

An eggdrop is a popular IRC bot that handles users and maintains certain rules & other things on your IRC channels. Eggdrops are useful to have on networks that don’t have IRC services such as Efnet and also useful when you need a certain service such as 24.7 channel logs for statistics (pisg) or quotes [...]


Rapidswitch; My Dedicated Server Review

In this post I thought i’d just write a quick review of my old dedicated server provider; Rapidswitch.


Upgrading Debian Etch (v4) to Debian Lenny (v5) and Kernel 2.6.26

Well, seeing as Debian Lenny is almost about to be released, I figured upgrading my server wouldn’t be a bad idea. Its locked behind a NAT firewall and doesn’t really do too much so I don’t think it will be a security issue (especially considering Lenny is soon to be a stable release.)


Managing Apache2 on Debian Etch

Thought i’d write a quick guide on managing apache2 once installed and running under debian. Covers log file management, adding virtual hosts (with subdomains) and basic security.