Are you kidding me? 9999 Euro ??? Besides this insane price, you couldn’t even order it, because you can only order up to a value of 1000 Euro.

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This is the beginning of our 5 weeks in Kiev and already there are so many thing to write about. The day started early, what isn’t really nice for a weekend. We arrived quite early at the Airport in Vienna, which was a very good thing as we found out later. The Airport in Vienna was packed full, total chaos. I have no idea where everyone was leaving, but I never saw something like that on Vienna Airport. Well, before the waiting for the security check began, we still had one little problem. The luggage! We did have a bit of luggage, let’s say a bit much more and of course I was blamed. Well… I won’t say anything without my lawyer
So, we did manage to board the plane with all our luggage and without paying anything extra. After a quite pleasant flight, except for the bit after takeoff where the pilot flew the plane like he was drunk, we arrived in Kiev. Now the fun begins. Immigration, I love this … waiting in along queue, with some immigration forms, and waiting … and waiting. After about half an hour we changed to a different queue. Some guy had some problems and was arguing with the guy from immigration. So we got out of immigration, we got our luggage , let’s get a taxi. Once outside in the main hall we where surrounded by a dozen of taxi drivers. We did finally get to some taxi counter that looked somehow official and of we went towards the hotel. about 30 min drive and the driver didn’t thing going under 100km/h.
What really made a good impression was the roads. I was expecting something similar to Romania, no freeway, pit holes and traffic. But I was surprised to see a freeway with 4 lanes in each direction after leaving the freeway, the street continued to have 4 lanes and there was no sign of traffic, at least in our direction.
There is much more to write about, but we are both to exhausted to do anything anymore.

Technorati Tags: Kiev, travel

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After installing a new VPS I thought I would go with Debian Lenny, although it’s not “stable” yet. The installation was quick and easy, no problems here. Then a control panel was needed, here of course I went with DTC the great GPL control panel from gplhost. After everything was up an running I noticed postfix was crashing.
warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/bounce pid 23776 killed by signal 6
warning: /usr/lib/postfix/bounce: bad command startup -- throttling
warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 4848 killed by signal 6
warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling


As usual, when you have no idea what it is, start searching. Funny enough, the first search result on google was a topic on gplhost froums, where I actually answered! Unfortunately my answer was related to a different question of that thread, but I still think it’s a bit funny. So as dsadmin was writing, it seems to be a mysql connection problem. The workaround described there (removing the mysql stuff from nsswitch.conf) does help, but it’s just a workaround and not a solution. It seems like libnss-mysql is broken in Debian Lenny and probably in Ubuntu also. A recompile didn’t help.

So, here comes Damien (also from gplhost) with the idea to install libnss-mysql-bg instead of libnss-mysql. After some modifications to the dtc control file (without them debian removes dtc because of dependency to libnss-mysql) I could remove libnss-mysql and install libnss-mysql-bg instead. Now all I had to do is run the DTC installer one more time so it can make all necessary modification to the libnss-mysql-bg config files (yes, DTC works with both!) and my problems where all solved.

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Some time ago I got an hosting account at a cheap company (I won’t mention any names). All was good and fine until the trouble started.

1. No detailed access logs

There is no way to see who logged in when over ftp. The only thing that is logged is the access over the web interface. This is not enough! I just found out that several index.html and index.php files where modified between april and may. They all where “infected” with some extra javascript code. Funny enough, somewhen during this time there was a modification to the FTP server of that provider. All passwords where modified and you had to change the password over the webinterface for all accounts. Strange isn’t it. There was no official statement about anything getting hacked. 

2. Useless webstats

One of my sites hosted there had in a day about 200Gig traffic. Although they promise you about 5000 Gig traffic per month, all my sites where locked down due to bandwidth exceeding. Support told me this:

All ***** accounts are allowed to use 167 GB of transfer per day. If you site goes over this limit it will be taken offline until the next day. 

 I tried to find anything about this on their website and find no trace about this limitation. Anyway, the reason for the huge traffic amount was of course someone with bad intentions. It is weird since there is no real website on that account. It was used for exchanging larger files (legal content, no piracy) and nothing that would really be of interest to someone. I couldn’t find out what was downloaded and from where to cause such huge traffic, the support was of no help and ALL MY SITES WHERE OFFLINE for one day. Really all of them! Not just the one causing the traffic. 

There where some other minor issues why I don’t like this provider, but they I can’t remember now and anyway, like I mentioned, they where minor issues. The two big issues I mentioned above is the reason why I will cancel my account. 

 

oh yes … one of the minor issues is they don’t support sFTP or FTP with SSL, just plain unencrypted FTP. Not very nice.

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Due to some stupid planing or rather not planing, I had to pick something up, bring it somewhere else and get back to work again. Well, the result was a 60km trip trough Vienna. Did it in 1hour 15, seems pretty acceptable for me. If I add the 25km I made this morning from home to work and the 25 I will do from work to home … 110km without leaving the city.

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