巧克力工厂

我觉得是时候夸夸 goober 了。

goober 是谁？谁是 goober？是猫是狗？

goober 是我在 Dreamhost 上用的服务器名。从第一天我的网站就呆在 goober上，一直到现在。

Dreamhost 在去年暑期经历过一次大的不能访问事件，好像是 Cisco 的主干路由器 OS 的 bug 导致的故障，好了又坏，坏了又好的，断断续续的大概持续了几个星期，对 Dreamhost 的声誉造成了很大的破坏，现在 webhostingjury 上给 Dreamhost 的恶评大部分都是因为那个时期的问题。但牛的是，我在那个期间确一直用的好好的，一点问题也没有，goober 一次也没让我失望。除了这个，goober 在绝大部分时间里都在勤勤肯肯地工作，绝少有 downtime。

除了这个，似乎 goober 他的配置也不错，经常在 dreamhoststatus 上看到哪台服务器被换主板了啊，升内存了啊，挪地方了啊。但从来没见提起 goober 过。

今天看到 dreamhost 又在大规模的给服务器们换机架，一番折腾，这么大的数量，也没见着 goober 的名字。

The server moves are almost all done! We do have a few major server moves left though. One of those will start tonight at 10 p.m. PST. The following servers will be switching racks tonight:

lenny, mcclure, millhouse, willie, seamus, burns, brandine, kearny, cletus, apu, lisa, skinner, chalmers, wiggum, limbo-postal, bigredgiant, marge, flanders, ralphie, cheeky, alexander, baht, contra, centipede, defender, joust, bob, rupee, pizarro, donkeykong, bomberman, abbazaba, smores, skor, rampart, wilmington, schnapps, mills, aero, aviation, altoid, butterfinger, kiki, hyperion, cerritos, york, poprock, hillmont, necco, shocktart, warhead, bottlecap, bazooka, archibald, taffy, limbo-spunky2, xekogame, fc23, bounty, nougat, juniormint, and reeses.

Although that looks like an enormous undertaking we, being the super smart people that we are, will break it into segments to minimize downtime! No server should experience more than 20 minutes of inaccessibility. Check this space for updates.

goober 真是个乖孩子，一定是个乖孩子。

今天打开dreamhost的panel发现我的空间已经是200G了，我吓了一大跳，以为是dreamhost搞错了，于是我回到dreamhost的主页，看见果然已经是200G了，而且以每周一G的速度增长!

dreamhost一定是疯了，这个容量已经比我两台电脑上的硬盘容量还太了，oh my god我是不是应该把我的硬盘全搬到网上呢？

考虑到原来用的mylifeshare.info这个域名一年后就要过期，我又不打算再续费，考虑再三，决定还是把我的blog搬到bemike.org上，等待google bot来抓取网站还需要一定时候，无形中也就损失了一些流量，不过好在我也不是什么商业blog, 从搜索引擎过来的流量对我来说不是很重要。

对阅读我的blog的朋友来说，从网页阅读的，输入原来的地址：blog.mylifeshare.info后，会被自动重定向到现在这个bemike.org来的，还要麻烦把这个新地址替换一下。以前订阅了我的blog的朋友就更不需要作任何改变，对你来说，一切都是透明的。

The other day I saw chedong was using Awstats as his blog’s statistics tool, I was so impressed by the powerful functionality and detailed outputs. I thought if I could use this tool on my blog, it’s gonna be so cool. But thing is never that easy, after I grabbed Awstats from its official site, I found this thing is too complicate for me to install, I almost got sick after reading its attached documentation, tons of information threw themselves on me, I didn’t even know where to start. Awstats is based on PERL, I know nothing about PERL programming, installing Awstats requires knowledge on UNIX/Linux command line, I know nothing about Shell either, therefore I didn’t make it eventually. However blog.istef.info released an article which gave me a simple guideline installing Awstats, after several unsuccessful trials, I finally had it installed on my blog (check it out here). I have to say I benefited a lot through this process, I got acquainted to Shell command, I learned some UNIX/Linux infrastructure, it was a really nice experience.

I’m going to log my installing process in the following, if you are not interested, skip it.

The tutorial on blog.istef.info seems intuitive and applicable, I thought I can do that within minutes, however things often get complex once you start to get them implemented. Since I am a complete newbie to UNIX/Linux, I got totally confused about the commands that ofter refered by the tutorial. Thus, I dug into another article that posted on Dreamhost Wiki, which has a clearer structure, but unfortunately this additional article confused me more, simply put, these two articles have many differences, I don’t know how to do.

Then chedong mentioned a new article which helped me a lot, I finally had Awstats installed on my blog, everything seemed working fine, but soon I found the cron job didn’t work at all. The strange thing was I didn’t make any wrong, the syntax looks good. This bewildered me, I tried many ways but just couldn’t solve the problem. Today I happened to delete some spaces in the script of the cron job, it worked!

Until now, Awstats has been working fine on my blog.

懒得看英文的，看看这个中文的版本。