- dcmuzix.com
- dcmuzix.net
- dcmuzix.org
- mad-tec.com
- skullrage.com
- skullrage.net
- skullrage.org
- theteamnoob.com

That bumps the the numer of domain names I own up to 46, lol! The domain mad-tec.com was a domain we used to use at work, which I have now recovered for myself, and theteamnoob.com is also an old domain name that I’ve recovered, as I used to own it myself a while back having bought it for a friend. As for skullrage, that’s new, I just fancied that name, lol. I bought the other domains of dcmuzix for a proper reason though. I plan to host my own streaming radio on that address, as I thought that danielclayton.com was a bit too long and boring to use for that. The radio is another one of the things achieved this weekend, as I’ve now figured out how to reconfigure Abyss and Shoutcast, blocking them both to specific IP adresses, to make it possible to run them both on port 80. This makes things alot easier and neater for Shoutcast. So, you can expect some news in the comming days about the radio. I’ve also reconfigued the DNS settings for all of my domain names, adding the AAAA entry, so now they all ping in both IPv4 and IPv6. Sadly, neither my HTTP, FTP or my Mail server software support IPv6, so it’s kind of pointless for the moment, but I suppose that having it configured ready doesn’t hurt, does it, hehe …

Apart from that, I’m very pleased to say that I’ve found myself a new girlfriend, mouhahahaha! Her name is Ashley, she’s 22 and she lives in San Diego in the States. Well, as soon as I said San Diego, I can see half of you saying ” WTF ?!?! “, haha. I’ve actually known Ashley for ages, we met online in a chat room about 7 years ago, if I remember correctly. We used to chat all the time back then, but then we kind of drifted apart for a few reasons, me having both met Hitomi and also having left for college and not having internet acess all the time. As a result we hadn’t talked between 2004 and now! If you remember from one of my previous posts here, I readded and unblocked a whole load of people in my MSN the other week, well, Ashley was in that list, and we talked again for the first time the other week, quite a reunion, hehe. So anyway, here are some photos of Ashley …

Or should Not bad eh? Anyway, we got talking again, and as usual, one thing led to another, and we ended up becomming boyfriend and girlfriend, lol. I know I swore I’d never date an American, but what the hell, haha. Ashleys got a great personality and is fun to talk, and I’m guessing she thinks the same about me, haha. So, we’ll just have to see how this one goes, hopefully better than the last times! Long distance relationships can suck in so many ways, but they can also have their own little perks, and can work well if both of you are on the same wave length. Hopefull Ashley will be comming over to visit me here in France sometime soon, so I’m looking forward to that, and then I guess it’ll be my turn to go over there to see her, oh god, lol …

To finish off, I finally got relax for a moment and do what I’ve been wanting to for ages. So, a whole pizza and a couple of yoghurts all to myself, along with a bottle of Smirnoff Ice, mmm, yummy. Add to that a good film, in this case The Last Samurai in Full HD 1080p, and the comfort of my bed along with some decent headphones turned up nice and loud, brilliant, hehe. Oh well, lets hope the good things keep comming, I really could do without any more bad news right now, lol …

Back in the days of SillyProject I had a top spec quad core server running flat out with about 50 games servers, web, email, radio, you name it, it ran it and never missed a beat. Once SillyProject came to an end (that’s a story for another day…), I downgraded to a cheaper Pentium 4 server on a 100 Mb connection, but found that a bit slow, so I went up a notch to a Core 2 Duo based server on a gigabit connection. That server was more or less perfect for what I was doing, being quick and having lots of space. I used it for hosting my own websites and some of my friends ones too, along with my streaming radio, a few small games servers and for downloading torrents, as it’s quicker than downloading them directly from home, lol.

But, anyway … cutting a long story short, the other month OVH changed their offers, and brought in this stupid new system. I guess they got sick of all the abuse their servers were getting, and they’ve now brought in a whole load of new security checks and stuff. The worst part is the new server offers though, with this different level of service bollocks, Platinum and Diamond and all that. Basically, it’s an excuse to double the price of the server you want, quite literally, as all you seem to get is a few extra IP addresses. They say you get better support and what not with it, but I’m very sceptical of that, their support is poor at the best of times, especially if you’re on Windows, where they couldn’t care less …

Anyway, enough ranting, as I’m sure you’re not interested, lol. In the end I decided to try out Dedibox, another french hosting company, who brought out a new range of pro servers just before OVH brought out their gay new offers. Dedibox’s pro server works out alot cheaper than OVH, as they only have one level of service, and their Windows licence is half the price too, and you get Server 2008 for that, not Server 2003! For the same hardware spec server at OVH, with the Diamond package, it is quite literally double the price of the Dedibox one! Not to mention that the Dedibox one has two gigabit connections, not just one like the OVH one. How OVH justify the price of that Diamond package is beyond me. Getting a new server from OVH was out of the question, and keeping my old Core 2 Duo one was out of the question too, as it was costing me more than the new Dedibox offer, which was twice the spec! So that’s how I ended up at Dedibox, and I must say, so far, touch wood, fingers crossed, and what not, I’ve had no problems at all, everything works like a dream! The specs of my Dedibox Pro server are quite impressive for the price, being an Intel Xeon Quad Core X3350 (4 x 2.66 Ghz), 8 Gb DDR2 ECC (Error Correction), dual 1Tb hard drives, dual gigabit connections and Windows Server 2008 Standard 64 Bit. So, there you go …