But aside from that another tune that really caught my eye was a new one from Tiga. Tiga recorded the classic “Sunglasses at night”. His latest record has slightly creepy feel to it much like the last one but has a really punchy sound to it…I think it will be something we will definitely be hearing more of. http://www.myspace.com/officialtiga

My last selection its Flo Rida’s somewhat filthy remix of “You Spin me round (like a record baby)” I find this song whilst undeniably terrible techniqually, immensely amusing, I love it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4b6EC3995Q

One is these is the great Girls Aloud – The Promice . It makes you wonder if we forgot about truly sexy clothes and fashion in the naughties, then again i doubt alot of people would fit into 60s style clothes nowadays…

On this retro note, if anyone from the 80s doesn’t remember this song they were never there!

Ninja cat is sneaky. What more needs to be said.

Monit in action

Once you’ve set it up by either reading the manual or by reading a couple of the tutorials online it requires very little maintenance. Be careful if you are running apache2 as it needs a slightly different setup. If a process fails or restarts monit will email you.

But the real power of monit is that not only does it report if a service fails, it can take action to correct the problem, and it can even take action before the problem causes a crash. It can monitor CPU and Memory usage of a service so if they are using too much, or a process has crashed using 100% CPU it can be automatically restarted. It will of course restart crashed services.

The best thing about monit is it saves having to write a set of shell scripts to keep an eye on each individual service, saving you significant time in administration.

If you just can’t get enough of monitoring you server Its close relative munit which is extremely easy to setup on Debian is good for long term monitoring as it produces some very pretty historical graphs, even up to a year back. You have no excuse for not realising your hard disk will run out of space in 2 months time. But you might forget to check so monit can be set to send you an email when you are approaching 95%.

Munit Graph Example

We employ both monit and munit on our web servers to ensure maximum uptime.

Apologies to everyone who had trouble contacting us in the past week, unfortunately our junk mail filters decided to store all of the blocked mails in a folder and not send them on. It has cost us several sales, as we have not been receiving sales emails. All requests for refunds have been processed in full. We’ve decided wading though tonnes of spam is better than losing potentially important sales and support emails from customers, so we have turned junk email filtering off on all of our email addresses.

Thanks for the image we borrowed from Epic Failures of 2007

Epic Fail

Anyway I guess the point I’m making is web hosts should start selling more honestly, there will be a backlash to the current situation. Many web hosting sites already will not let you advertise “Unlimited” plans as of course nothing is unlimited…

On a more cheery note, check this: