When I was active in Indyahozting, I was too much worried about server loads. Because it was something that affected all clients, and I hated it when servers crossed a total usage of 75%, which would make all sites on the server slow. There were not much of a problem on the Linux servers, but Windows servers always used to give me a hard time.

Right now, Im in a quest to make all my automated blogs work in full effecienty. I was hosting them on a shared hosting account, but now I have taken a dedicated server from iweb where all those blogs are hosted. And I am amusing myself in finding that the server is running at full effecienty, and that all the pho sites are always busy updating the blogs with articles round the clock, and serving the search engine visitors. The network lines are always busy, and the server’s processor is always at about 90%, and the memory usage is at 1.8 gb out of the 2 GB that it has got.

I dont believe in loading the hard disk though, since that would naturally slow down the server with lots of data. So I have dedicated one disk for the databases alone, and one for the files and logs and stuff. All of them are wordpress sites, and wordpress sites only work with databases a lot, so the 2nd hard drive for sure is getting a lot of work for itself. And a backup of the 2nd drive is constantly being taken in the first drive.

I am worried only about the databases since the php is the same for all the 85 sites that the server hosts, and they all use the very same wordpress templates. So if that is lost nothing is lost. If the databases are lost something is lost, and never is everything lost, since all the site sites that are hosted on the server are automated and get updated by themselves.

Do you know how to screw? Do you like screwing? Do you think screwing is fun? What about plugging then? You like that too? Then you should assemble a PC. Putting a PC together is always fun.

Requirements :

1. Processor

2. Motherboard

3. CPU Cabinet with SMPS

4. Kyeboard and Mouse

5. Hard Disk

6. CD DVD Drive if required.

7. Monitor.

8. RAM

Optional components :

1. Sound Card

2. AGB card

3. USB Expansion card

4. any other PCI card as desired.

Tools Required :

1. Screwdriver.

The best thing about assembling a PC is that all you need to get it up and running is only a screw driver. This technology is called screwdriver technology, and is powerful enough to make a novice call himself a computer engineer.

So. Let me come to the steps. You will need a workbench. But I prefer the floor. Buy all the above components as per your requirement, bring it home and spread it on the floor. You might need a small cup in which you can put all the screws so that they wont be rolling on the floor to prick on someones legs later.

1. If its a decent cabinet that you have bought, the insides should be completely of conductive metal, so that any earth current from any component flows directly thru and gets grounded. You will find a removable plate inside the cabinet. Remove it. and place it on the floor. Copper or plastic raisers will be supplied with the motherboard or the cabinet. Place them in the appropriate holes on the plate so that it matches the holes on the motherboard. Keep the plate aside.

2. Take out the motherboard, place in on your lap with a pillow in between. Open the processor case, and take out the processor. Open the lock on the processor socket, place the processor in it matching the arrow on the processor and the socket, and close the lock on the slot. Take out the processor heatsink, remove the sticker from the heatsink-paste layer, place it appropriately over the processor and lock it. The heatsink-fan will have a wire which needs to be connected to its appropriate socket on the motherboard.

3. Fix the RAM chips into the RAM slots on the motherboard.

4.Plug the IDE and SATA cables to the appropriate sockets.

5. Now, place the motherboard over the meta plate which was removed from the cabinet earlier, and align the holes on the motherboard to the raisers that were placed on the plate. Make sure that none of the contacts or soldered points on the rear of the motherboard touch the metal plate, as if they do, it means Short Circuti, and it will make a very logn circuit for you to get all the damaged products replaced and start assembling again. You will need to just push to lock the boards on plastic raisers, and will need to screw the boards to copper raisers.

6. Place the hard disk and CD Drive to the appropriate compartments in the cabinet and screw them .

7. Screw the plate to the cabinet.

8. Plug the Processor power supply that comes out from the SMPS to the appropriate socket in the motherboard. This is a 3.7 volt supply line. It is usually a cable that comes with a square plug. You can read the sticket on the SMPS to find out which plug is what.

9. Connect the motherboard supply line to the appropriate socket. This us usually a big one, with multiple colors of wires in it.

10. You will find Rectangular plugs with 4 wires in it, 2 black ones in the middle, and red and yellow on the either side. Usually you will find 2 pairs of these, good enough to connect 4 IDE drives. If you have a SATA drive, you will get an adapter too with it. Or if you managed to get an ultra modern SMPS, you will find the plug for SATA drives too.

11. Then you will need to connect the on/off switch, reset button, and the LED indicators to the motherboard. Its not a tough job, read the mohterboard manual to find where the sockets for these are.

12, Check the motherboard manual and find out if there are any special jumber settings to be made. If anything is mentioned, follow that.

13. Plug the IDE and SATA cables attached to the motherboard to the respective drives.

14. Plugin the PCI cards if any and screw them.

15. Check all screws if they are tightly screwed, and check all plugs. Double check the rear of the motherboard and make sure that none of the contacts are touching the plate.

16. Close the cabinet and keep it aside.

17, A monitor usually comes with a base whih would need attaching. Do it as per the instruction manual, and place it on the table.

18. Place the CPU in position and plug the mains cables to it, as well as the monitors.

19. Attach keyboard and mouse to the CPU.

Wa La. your computer is ready to use.

I have my hosting with hostgator. Though I used to be the so called managing director of Indyahozting, I preferred my sites to be somewhere else when I moved out of the company, and so I chose hostgator apart from everyone else The name sounded cool, and I know that the site is in existence for the past 7 years. Well, the deal is I pay them $10 every month, and they give me a hosting account on which I can host unlimited domains and create unlimited databases and use upto 600 GB of space. Wow, what more do I need? I asked them whats the catch, and they told me that I cannot use more than 25% of the servers resources, and that they have a dual xeon server with 4 gb ram and stuff. They refuse to tell me how much hard disk they have got. They cant have more than 4×500 gb hard drives raided together. Thats only 2 TB. How are they sharing 600 gb to each client hosted on this server? Bullshit. I know that as I too have been selling hosting for some time now.

There is no such thing as Unlimited. If there was something called unlimited, I would take one of these $10 accounts and give hosting free for everyone with a limit of 10 or 20 mb per user to host their static html files only, and that way I would attract millions and billions of users and there would be no way that hostgator’s servers can tolerate the load of traffic though I would manage to keep the processor load within 25% as there would be no php or any other resource consuming sites. Everything would be plain html.

They would have a serious problem in their hands. What would they do? They would find a bullshit way to get me out of their servers, and I would challenge them that I am lying within the bounds of their TOS. The only thing that they can do to get me off their servers is to use the clause that states Host Gator reserves the right to fuck any client off their servers at their will and that I agree completely to that.

Dont get fooled by these offers. Think. Spend $1 per site a month and get hosting from the smaller providers, and you will get more resources per site.

Something that was a complete luxury about 10 years and before, started becoming common about 4 years ago into my life, and today, I cant live without one. I want it at my home, I want it when i work, I want it when I sleep, I want it when I eat, I want it at the office, I want it in my car, and I havent yet thought about putting one in my toilet yet.

Yes its an AC. Im an LG freak. Anything that you see in my house is LG. LG Micorwave, LG Refridgrator (2 of them, I took one to my office), LG TV and an LG Washing Machine. Unfortunately I truat only Philips with my DVDs, so I have a Philips DVD player, and the biggest mistake of my life that I have made is that I invested about Rs 40,000, or about $1000 in todays value, about 3 years ago, to buy 2 ACs. Both were Voltas. I took no ones advise. And, mainly, I didnt think. I just enquired the rates, and I just bought voltas since it was about Rs 1000 less, and I saved about $50 in total.

That was a very big mistake. If I had gone for LG ACs too, life would have been much better now. Thankfully the AC at my office is LG, and thats a split AC, and is real good, and the ACs at the house, being window ACs, are a bit messy, noisy and sucks in a lot of power.

Mine is a 2 bedroom house, and we use one of those as the bedroom, and the other one I use as my home office. If someone comes for an official meeting, we use that room, and my PC and all my work related things are in that room. and the Voltas AC in this room came with a plug that could be plugged into a any 15 Amps Socket on the wall, and the stupid designer of the house had placed the 15 amps sokcet that was intended for the AC quite far away from the window, hoping that we would be using a stablizer for the AC right near to it.

No, I have a huge stabilizer that my father had bought long back for an AC in his office, over 15 years ago, and that has a load capacity of about 4000 Watts, which is about the same load that has been sanctioned to our house by the EB, and this stabilizer is fixed in the hall, right below the mains power unit, so that it takes care of the entire house from electrical fluctuations, meaning no seperate stabilizers required for the Refridgrator, Microwave, TV or the ACs.

The AC in the other room was quite fine, came without a plug pin, and we could connect it directly to the switch thru a switch board, which was placed near to the window. And thats a better AC that whats in my office room at home.

As I hate to cut any moulded plug pins attached to a wire, I decided to leave it alone, and bought a 15 Amps, extension cord, and used that to connect the AC to the mains, and thats how it was working all these years. The entire length of the extension cord is always pulled out so that it never gets heated up. It was working fine all these years without any problems. But the AC was not used for more than 3 or 4 hours at a stratch.

Since I came back to Pondicherry from Chennai, and having to work at nights for quite some time, I am sleeping in my room on a foldable bed, while my baby and its mother sleep in the master bedroom (if I may call it so), and since I am on vacation, Im not visiting office much, and am taking care of the office right from home, and that makes the AC run for atleast 20 hours a day, 4 hours given to the time Im outside, bathing eating etc, and this 4 hours isnt continious either.

Last night I smelled something like burnt plastic. I was worried if my PC had over heated and the coating in the motherboards have started melting, but when I started smelling smoke, I looked around to find that the extension cord that was nailed to the wall was smoking like it would catch fire anytime. Instinct and my education on electrical equipments took over and I jumped to snap the switch in the wall to which the extension cord was connected off. And I just waited for the plug pin and the socket of the extension cord to cool off. The time was 12 AM, and thanks to the climate, the room had become hot, and I hate the fan, but without an option, I turned on the fan.

Once it had cooled down, I tried to pull it out of the socket, but it wouldnt come out, It was sealed to the socket, and even with a screw driver it wouldn’t come off. With not many options in hand, and the master bedroom’s door locked from inside, and no way to get it opened without waking up my son, I decided to sleep in the plastic smoke filled room with a fan. I didnt want to open the windows since I didnt want what cool was left inside to be filled with the heat outside. So I just slept.

It was about 6.30 AM when I woke up, and I had a prize winning headache that no one would ever have had just by sleeping in a closed room with a fan and filled with some burnt plastic smell. I couldnt do anything till it was about 11 AM, and till then I had to sit before the TV to wait for the headache to subside and to breathe in as much fresh air as I could.

Once the headache had subsided, I went to a nearby electrical store, bought a roll of insulation tape, cut off the pin from the AC, and the extension cord from its box, and connected them to gether, rolled the insulation tape around it, and now I hope to live happily ever after.