Most of the stuff I had in the downloads was pretty old and outdated ebooks and texts, Most of which are pretty useless unless you just wanna read. I say some of the programming ones are still useful but anyway I was looking through the stats on the site and seen thousands of direct hits to files referred by warez sites and such. Quite a bit of bandwidth had been leeched. I guess it was my fault for leaving an open directory like that which bots could index.

I had even seen referrals fro search engines dedicated to doing this.

I will probably find a way to do the downloads in the near future, once your stuff starts getting posted on warez sites they will tear it up even if they don’t need it, just the fact they have a direct download. I had pretty big problems with warez forums before. I know projectw.org had posted some hacking videos on their forum and people was leeching the shit out of it. So I tried everything to stop it, hotlink protection, etc; to no avail. Turns out those download progs like flashget get right by hotlink protection as its a partial request.

So files section is down, that’s not what we are about anyway. I say most of them would be considered illegal warez so I don’t need no trouble with that. I will however make a download section of all the pre patched kernels, iptables, and other open source stuff I have and everyone can leech all they want.

I figured Id better seperate all my high risk clients from regular clients including my sites and put them on this new softlayer server. Which was a killer deal btw, 2 quad core xeon 5335 and 6gb ram, 2 250gb hds. It runs nicely and should be a lot more stable

I never been too keen on the benefits of switching to 64 bit, I know a lot of places install centos32 on any server despite the processor. So I was working in a centos64 box and I seen that I can run everything just like in centos32 except performance was better, load balancing was much better.

So I decided to get my next servers as centos 64 bit. I have one up now, its in Intel Quad Xeon, Centos 5 64 bit. It seems a lot faster and more stable and scores much higher on unix benchmarks. They say it uses more resources but I havent seen it but that server does have 4 gb ddr2 ram so it will probably be a while before I can test average work on it.

I plan to migrate this server and my other server to 64 Bit within the next month. Will be a lot of work but I will be able to do it with not much downtime at all. I will at least get this server migrated this month.

So yeah, if you got a 64 bit compatible processor go for it, no reason not to. Also you will be getting optimized software right off, You wont get that i386 crap. It amazes me they still make almost all packages compiled for i386. Really, who still runs that? But I would say software optimization was always something I was trying to do in 32 bit, I dont think Ill have to do it as much now.