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I wrote three articles on my old blog about ‘So You Want To Be A Systems Administrator’ - and the flood of incoming hits brought my old webserver down - twice. An athlon 500 with 384meg of RAM is fine for this stuff right up until you get a few hundred hits in a few seconds. The poor baby ran into swap, then ran out of swap and locked up.

So I’ve decided to relaunch those articles at a new site - with professional hosting. I didn’t want to mess around with mediocrity and el-cheapo servers, so I went directly to pair.

To anyone who’s put out or feels spammed by my relaunching the three articles - I’m sorry; but there were literally hundreds of people who tried to read them and couldn’t because of my crap old server.

After years of random topics on my old blog, I also realised I was going to be posting a fair few purely tech-related articles, and I realised I needed a new site to keep the signal to noise ratio down for my readers. I’ll still continue to update the old site - but I’ll post my ramblings and personal news there. This site is for the geek stuff alone.

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